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This volume records the conclusions and recommendations of a study group commissioned to explore the use of home-based care as a strategy for coping with the growing number of individuals in need of long-term care. Addressed to policy-makers, the report responds to striking demographic and epidemiological changes that have created an urgent need to expand the availability of cost-effective chronic care.; Throughout the report, examples from different countries and lists of key questions are used to help policy-makers think through problems and solutions and learn from the experience of others. Issues discussed range from the importance of avoiding over-medicalization of long-term care, through to the need to recognize that caregivers also need support, and to the great danger that home care may be used to justify abdication of public or government responsibility.

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