Demand for community-based Case Management in Austria - a qualitative analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of people with complex nursing and care needs living in their own homes is increasing. The implementation of Case and Care Management has shown to have a positive effect on unmet care needs. Research on and implementation of Case and Care Management in the community setting in Austria is limited. This study aimed to understand the changes and challenges of changing care needs by mobile nurses and to evaluate the need for Case Management in mobile care organizations by investigating the evolution of mobile care nurses'task profiles and the challenges in working in a dynamic field with changing target groups and complexifying care needs.

Methods

A qualitative study with reductive-interpretative data analysis consisting of semi-structured focus groups was

SUBMITTER: Gessl AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8725559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature