title: Maximizing the patient's uniqueness and strengths: a challenge for home health care.
abstract: Because of where services are provided, home health care programs offer rich opportunities for incorporating the patient's uniqueness and strengths in treatment planning. Operationalizing these in day-to-day practice may be inhibited by the traditional medical model governing most treatment decisions. A reflective model and strengths perspective are mechanisms which bolster efforts to individualize patient care. A case example illustrates the difference between traditional approaches and alternative opportunities open to the home health care social worker.
authors: Southwest Missouri State University, Department of Social Work, Springfield 65804-0095.
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Pray
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*