Abstract
In the past two decades a great variety of community rehabilitation projects and teams have been developed, which are not easy to classify. This study examined the usefulness of a proposed classification system for home-based rehabilitation services for people with stroke. It was descriptive, comparative and quantitative. Services were categorized into four types: early supported discharge rehabilitation; postdischarge community rehabilitation; GP-orientated community rehabilitation; and late community rehabilitation. The features of each are described. The rehabilitation of almost all (98%) of patients studied could be placed within these categories. Providers of services, such as primary care trusts, need to identify the needs of their service users and match them, if possible, to suitable provision.
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