biostudies-literatureUnknown2025Gao Y<h4>Background</h4>Home care systems face critical challenges: severe staff shortages, ill-defined service content, and ineffective care needs communication, all contributing to suboptimal service delivery. Developing a severity-stratified priority model for functionally impaired older adults enables precise resource allocation, improving both care quality and quality of life in this high-risk population.<h4>Objective</h4>To identify the specialized home care service needs of older adults with physical disabilities across varying disability levels and to propose strategies to optimize specialized home care services.<h4>Design</h4>A cross-sectional study.<h4>Setting and participants</h4>From October 2023 to January 2024, 550 older adults with physical disabilities participated in a disabiliJournal of nursing management8917956https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12698254biostudies-literatureSpecialized Home Care Needs and Models for Disabled Older Adults by Disability Level: A Cross-Sectional Study.PMC12698254Zhou LGao YZhou WfalseSpecialized Home Care Needs and Models for Disabled Older Adults by Disability Level: A Cross-Sectional Study.<h4>Background</h4>Home care systems face critical challenges: severe staff shortages, ill-defined service content, and ineffective care needs communication, all contributing to suboptimal service delivery. Developing a severity-stratified priority model for functionally impaired older adults enables precise resource allocation, improving both care quality and quality of life in this high-risk population.<h4>Objective</h4>To identify the specialized home care service needs of older adults with physical disabilities across varying disability levels and to propose strategies to optimize specialized home care services.<h4>Design</h4>A cross-sectional study.<h4>Setting and participants</h4>From October 2023 to January 2024, 550 older adults with physical disabilities participated in a disabili2025-01-01T00:00:00Z20252026-06-14T05:04:23.77Z2026-06-14T03:08:25.207ZS-EPMC126982544139411010.1155/jonm/8917956