Valuing Home and Community Care, April 2010
An Examination Of The Economic Value Created By Home And Community-Based Healthcare In Ontario - Why home and community care is an essential component of the long-term financial viability of publicly-funded provincial healthcare. Co-Sponsored by the Community Provider Associations Committee (CPAC) and the Change Foundation.
Backgrounder
Summary of Findings
Appendices

The Change Foundation and OACCAC Having Their Say and Choosing Their Way  Commentary and Final Reports (October 2009)
Having Their Say and Choosing Their Way is a joint quality improvement project funded by the Change Foundation in partnership with OACCAC. Hospitals and community care access centres (CCACs) involved in two regions in Ontario (South East CCAC and Quinte Health Care and Toronto Central CCAC and Toronto Western) have introduced changes to ease patient transitions to home or LTCH and provide better value and better care. The reports are availabe on the Change Foundation website. OHCA members can access the reports here.

October 2008 - The Weight of Evidence: Results from the Continuing Care Research Study
A presentation by David Pedlar, PhD (Veterans Affairs Canada)and March J. Hollander, PhD (Hollander Analytical Services Ltd.) The findings from this research show the importance and cost-effectiveness of long term home care within an integrated system of care delivery. Details.

March 8, 2007 Information on the Continuing Care Research Project sponsored by Veteran's Affairs Canada and the Ontario Seniors' Secretariat.
More information from the Ontario Seniors' Secretariat website.

2005-2006 Annual Report from the SLRU on Health and Social Service Utilization.

July 2006 SLRU Newsletter - Highlights the Unit's research on frail older adults and home care.

An Interdisciplinary Medication Management Program for Seniors in the Community
Click here for a summary or for more information visit the link here.

December 2005 - Core Competencies: Community Health Nurses Enablers and Barriers
Jane Underwood, RN, BScN, MBA; Andrea Baumann, RN, PhD; Jennifer Blythe, PhD; Anne Ehrlich, RN, MHSc, describe the key consideration in their poster presentation. Details.

November 2005 - Seniors Health Research Transfer Network
Linking Caregivers, Researchers and Policy Makers current initiatives. Members can access more information here.

May 2005 - Implementation of an evidence-based leg ulcer service: improved clinical and cost outcomes
Margaret B. Harrison, Ian D. Graham, Karen Lorimer, Elaine Friedberg, Tadeusz Pierscianowski, Tim Brandys CMAJ - MAY 24, 2005; 172 (11) 1447 "The implementation of a nurse-led, evidence-based leg ulcer service resulted in faster healing rates and lower supply costs in the Ottawa-Hull region." Members can access more information here.

2004, Journal or Clinical Nursing 13:226-223 - Advanced Home Care: Patients' opinions on quality compared with those of family members"
Research which has found that family members who see patients every day appear to be very good proxies for a patient's assessment of home care quality is described - Larsson BW, Larsson G, Carslong SR.

July 2004 - Management and Delivery of Community Nursing Services in Ontario: Impact on the Quality of Care and the Quality of Worklife of Community-based Nurses
Recently released research investigated the impact of the competitive model for awarding home care nursing service contracts in Ontario, on the quality of care, nurse and client outcomes. 'Clients evaluated the quality of nursing care very highly. Clients cared for by for-profit agencies reported higher quality of care and higher satisfaction than clients cared for by not-for-profit agencies.'
'The study findings suggest that agency structure (for-profit or not-for-profit) was less of a factor in determining the quality of care or quality of nursing worklife, than other factors related to the nurses' conditions of employment and work experience.' To review the complete report, please click here.

December 2003 - Frail Elderly Homecare Clients: The Costs and Effects of Adding Nursing Health Promotion and Preventive Care to Personal Support Services
By Maureen Markle-Reid, Robin Weir, Gina Browne, Sandra Henderson, Jacqueline Roberts, and Amiram Gafni. "...first Canadian randomized trial with a full economic evaluation that gives evidence for the effectiveness and efficiency of having a nurse provide health promotion and preventive care to a general population of elderly homecare clients and their caregivers." Click here for website. Members click here for copy of report.

May 2003 A Public Preference for Home Care by D. Guy

Hollander Analytical Services, National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care, Evaluation of the Maintenance and Preventive Function of Home Care, Final Report 2001
For copies write to: info@hollanderanalytical.com

Hollander Analytical Services, The Third Way
A copy of this paper can be found at http://www.hollanderanalytical.com/main.html