Table of Contents:
  • Intermediate care : policy and context
  • Identifying the need and scope for intermediate care
  • Management and planning of services
  • Coordinating intermediate care
  • Service development and evaluation in intermediate care
  • Interdisciplinary working in intermediate care : generic working or the key to a person centred approach?
  • Interdisciplinary training and development
  • Evidence on the effectiveness of intermediate care
  • Economic evaluation of intermediate care
  • Continuing care : policy and context
  • Community care : service delivery, development and evaluation
  • Alternative housing and care arrangements : the evidence
  • Care homes and continuing care
  • Interdisciplinary working and education in continuing care
  • Carers and caregiving in the context of intermediate and continuing care
  • Patient and public involvement in service design and evaluation
  • Implications for policy and practice : the future