In this chapter, we focus on home delivery, and, more specifically, on attended home delivery, where the consumer must be present for the delivery. To provide a high service level and to avoid delivery failures as much as possible, it is customary in attended home delivery services for the company to offer the customer a choice of narrow delivery time slots. The objective of this chapter is to ...

An estimated 45 million family members, friends, and neighbors provide unreimbursed home care services for older adults who require some form of assistance to remain in the community because of one or more chronic illnesses or disabilities (National Alliance for Caregiving & AARP, 2009). Research reports indicate these informal caregivers often feel burdened and unprepared to provide home care ...

The NHS in England has been urged to do more to support home care services for older people in guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

There is a growing demand for home care services in Canada. Yet, overwhelmingly, research on patient safety has focused on institutional settings. The Canadian Patient Safety Institute convened a Core Safety in Home Care Team of researchers and decision-makers to identify priority research areas and to advance patient safety research in home care. As part of this initiative to investigate and e...

PURPOSE The purpose of this review is to develop a theoretical framework addressing the effects of informal caregivers on health-related outcomes of elderly recipients in home health care. METHODS The investigator a) reviewed theories and literature related to informal caregiving and health-related outcomes of elderly recipients, b) critiqued the strengths and limitations of these theories an...

A scheme of augmented home care for disabled elderly invalids is compared with long-stay hospital care. Initial results suggest that selected patients may be suitable for home care if they can be left unsupervised at night or if a relative is available to provide supervision. The cost of such care is in most cases cheaper than keeping the patient in hospital, and schemes such as this might redu...

studying real as well as imagery spatiality of family roles and image of them for family members should be put among first steps of any architectural design program that aims to achieve in stabilizing of family pattern of a certain culture. its importance is more obvious for those cultures which want to save family structure as their basis of existence and growth. a literature review of current...

Medical home services for families with children with special health care needs can provide needed help for families struggling to gain access to coverage and needed services. Wisconsin, through Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Services, has an opportunity to provide this important and necessary service.

BACKGROUND Increasingly, residents are being trained in Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) settings. A set of PCMH entrustable professional activities (EPAs) for residents has been defined but not evaluated in practice. OBJECTIVE To understand whether residents trained at PCMH sites reported higher likelihood of engaging in PCMH tasks than those training in non-PCMH sites. DESIGN Survey a...