Moving toward health service integration

Framework Features in Practice The second section of the survey assessed the extent to which provinces are implementing the features of the Hollander and Prince framework. [...] Inclusion criteria for this review included: • studies and review articles of the effectiveness of models of integrated health and social care for seniors in peer-reviewed journals, government websites or official evaluation reports; • surveys of opinion leaders about features of integrated health and social care models; and • articles about frameworks of health and social integrated care for seni [...] Reviews of Programs of Integrated Health and Social Care of the Elderly Kodner and Kyriacou (2000) compared the features of two large, multi-site American models of integrated care, the PACE model and the SHMO. [...] The “laws” provide a foundation for thinking about integration frameworks by drawing attention to the kinds of decisions that need to be made in developing integrated care: 1. You can integrate all of the services for some of the people, some of the services for all of the people, but not all of the services for all of the people. [...] In the case of Manitoba, the provincial response was incomplete because some aspects of the survey were felt to be the responsibility of the RHAs.