title: Managerial and professional collaboration in the provision of home care rehabilitation.
abstract: Demand for home care rehabilitation continues to grow in response to faster hospital discharges. One solution is to expand rehabilitation services using therapist assistants. Professionals voice concerns regarding many instances of assistants providing interventions outside their expertise and practicing without therapist supervision. This paper provides principles elicited from practitioners' experiences of an effective management culture and collaboration in one home care organization that effectively assimilated assistants, with reports of consequent improvements to rehabilitation service and client outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta.
authors.forename: Vivien
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hollis
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: May
mesh_terms: D000416:Alberta; D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D026761:Physical Therapy Specialty; D011361:Professional Competence; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*