The new emphasis of home care

There's been a shift in Vancouver's Home Care program. In the early 1980s, we provided largely "hands on", treatment-oriented care. A physician's order defined the kind and frequency of that care and was a requirement for admission. But in the '90s, all that's changed. The emphasis is on a more holistic approach, on assisting individuals and their families to assume as much control as possible over health-related decisions. A parallel focus is on the growing need for effective and equitable resource allocation.