The Short-term Outcomes and Costs of Home Care Re-ablement Services

Karen Jones, Kate Baxter, Lesley Curtis, Hilary Arksey, Julien Forder, Caroline Glendinning, Parvaneh Rabiee (2009)

Abstract

English local authorities with responsibility for adult services are increasingly developing short-term, specialist home care-based re-ablement services. Reablement can be described as an ‘approach’ or a ‘philosophy’ within home care services - one whi