Engaging Communities as Home Care Providers, Utilizing a Social Enterprise Model

Tom Niall O'Connor

doi:10.5334/ijic.3342

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Engaging Communities as Home Care Providers, Utilizing a Social Enterprise Model

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Research Problem: How can we engage communities as home care providers, utilizing a social enterprise model? Policy Context and Objectives: With the development the Integrated Care Services Model (2010), and the new impetus towards a population health approach within HSE National Service Plans, the new organisational structures, the creation initially of integrated service areas, and since 2015, the establishment of Community Health Organisations (Healy 2014), primary and home/community care have become centre-stage in the delivery of integrated care
Its objectives were to investigate: What is the nature of public and private home care delivery in Cork City, Ireland? Is home care becoming more or less affordable? Is private provision the only option? Should a social enterprise model become part of the care commissioning agenda? Targeted Population: The study was conducted on home help/home care workers and families in receipt of home care by way of a questionnaire
This finding speaks to the success of almost 90 such care enterprises in the UK, the report of Fourth Agee Trust (2014), that social enterprises are a very useful model for the delivery of home care for elderly people, given that care workers are drawn from the community of the service user and display strong satisfaction ratings

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Introduction

Research Problem: How can we engage communities as home care providers, utilizing a social enterprise model? Policy Context and Objectives: With the development the Integrated Care Services Model (2010), and the new impetus towards a population health approach within HSE National Service Plans, the new organisational structures, the creation initially of integrated service areas, and since 2015, the establishment of Community Health Organisations (Healy 2014), primary and home/community care have become centre-stage in the delivery of integrated care. Engaging Communities as Home Care Providers, Utilizing a Social Enterprise Model Introduction: Research Problem: How can we engage communities as home care providers, utilizing a social enterprise model?

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