Mapping Local Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care Services

A whole-systems approach to understanding service capacity and planning change

Jan Stevenson
May 2001 | 20 pages | £0.00

The government has set out its agenda for re-shaping services for older people, recognising the part that rehabilitation and intermediate care should play in this. The challenge is to find ways to provide a range of integrated services. This paper argues that a whole-systems approach to strategic development and operational change is needed to develop a range of flexible intermediate care and rehabilitation services. It provides a model for mapping the current scope of services,offers practical advice on finding unexplored potential, examines how older people use services, and identifies gaps and pressure points.