Home care the American way: an historical analysis.
An historical inquiry, this study examines a 100 year tradition of home-based nursing care in the United States. Whether considering turn of the century origins or contemporary re-emergence, the continuities in organization and delivery of home-based care are apparent and striking. Most remarkable in the American saga of home-based care are our dependence on local definition of perceived need and appropriate response; the amount of individual ingenuity required to obtain care from an often confusing assortment of competitive, duplicative and fragmented home care services; and our reliance on public sentiment and devotion to individual freedom rather than more "rational" planning methods.
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School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D003625:Data Collection; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006278:Medicare / Q000266:history; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States