Review Special Issue on Community Care
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Community Care".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 3162
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nursing; quality of life; gerontology; patient education; geriatric; nursing instrument development; geriatric assessment; geriatric psychiatry; medication adherence; aging research; elderly; questionnaire design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Community care is focused on societal support for people with mental illness and disabilities living in and participating in society. Community care consists of actions, both on a small and large scale, that people can take to show their support for another person or a group of individuals, particularly older people and those with mental illnesses, learning disabilities, and physical disabilities. The most important aim of community care is enabling those cared for to remain living in their own homes. In addition, it strives to allow these people to be as independent as possible in order to prevent social isolation. The “Review Special Issue on Community Care” will involve—from a medical perspective—a wide diversity of studies related to people with mental illness and disabilities, including research on housing and residential environments, education, work, traffic and transport, friends and relatives, recreation and leisure, and health and healthcare.
Prof. Dr. Robbert Gobbens
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- community care
- home care services
- district nursing
- informal care
- collaboration between formal and informal care
- quality of life for people with disabilities
- mental illness
- learning disabilities
- physical disabilities
- frailty
- prevention
- recreational, occupational, educational, and cultural activities for people with disabilities
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