title: Assessing the need for a medical respite: perceptions of service providers and homeless persons.
abstract: For homeless persons, posthospitalization care is increasingly provided in formal medical respite programs, and their success is now reported in the literature. However, there is a dearth of literature on posthospitalization transitional care for homeless persons in the absence of a respite program. Through this formative study, we sought to understand the process of securing posthospitalization care in the absence of a formal homeless medical respite. Results demonstrated a de facto patchwork respite process that has emerged. We describe both human and monetary costs associated with patchwork respite and demonstrate opportunities for improvement in homeless health care transitions.
authors: a Duke University School of Nursing , Durham , North Carolina.
authors: Donna J
authors: DJ
authors: Biederman
authors: Julia
authors: J
authors: Gamble
authors: Marigny
authors: M
authors: Manson
authors: Destry
authors: D
authors: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012144:Respite Care / Q000191:economics*; D000069341:Transitional Care / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States