title: Community-based services for people with AIDS.
abstract: AIDS is a progressively debilitating disease in which the infected individual will require a diverse range and often intensive set of formal and informal services. With assistance from health care providers, community-based organizations, family, and friends, quality of life can be maintained. Community-based organizations have the advantages of cost-effectiveness, flexibility, individualized attention, accessibility, and cultural sensitivity. The range of community-based services is described.
authors.affiliation: Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York, NY.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Katoff
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy* / Q000635:transmission; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family; D011287:Prejudice; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States