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| Programs that provide non-institutional support for people who are otherwise unable to remain in the community. |
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| The difference between what care could or should be and what unusual care is. The care gap leads us to missed clinical benefits and higher costs for payers. |
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| Centres locaux de services communautaires(CLSCs) |
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| Quebec's local centres for community services combine the work of professionals and volunteers to deliver home care services and direct health needs away from hospitals toward community care. |
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| Community Care Access Centre (CCACs) |
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| Ontario's system of volunteer-run community care centres that provide a single point of entry into the health care system and services such as the Victorian Order of Nurses. |
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| the array of services that range from institutional care to little or no institutional contact |
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| a hospital program that offers a full range of hospital services to older people who live in the community, and that assesses individual's needs before setting up a health care plan |
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| the support needed for people to maintain optimum health. The health care needs of Canada's older population range from health promotion to health maintenance, to long-term chronic care. |
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| The realm of health services, including the health care system, traditional medical services, improvements in human biology, improvements in lifestyles, and improvements in environment, as envisioned by the former Minister of Health Marc Lalonde. |
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| A health care model that focuses on self-care and preventing disease through lifestyle-change, increased knowledge about health behavior, and environmental improvement. |
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| a range of social and medical services designed to help people live independently in the community. |
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| social and medical services, including formal services, home or institutional care, and family care, for people who have functional limitations. |
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| a health care model that favours surgery, drug therapy, and rehabilitation through physical therapies with a focus on the treatment of diseases and injuries, usually in the physician;s office, a hospital, or other health care institutions. |
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| the idea that institutions can and should make life in the institution as much like life outside as possible |
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| the 2002 Canadian federal government report of the Commission of the Future of Health Care in Canada, led by Roy Romanow, which underscores Canada's commitment to its health care system and makes several proposals for improving the delivery of health care to seniors. |
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