The Home Care Research Initiative: Concept Papers on Home Care
Policy and Practice was an initiative to commission and disseminate
a series of papers intended to reexamine the underlying premises
of home and community-based services (HCBS) and introduce new
perspectives to the field of long-term care (LTC).
The objectives of the commissioned papers
were to: reconsider the fundamental goals of HCBS and their place in the spectrum of LTC;
reexamine the principles and premises underlying current policies, practices, and service arrangements;
critically review the experience of current policies, practices, and service arrangements;
propose alternative concepts and paradigms to guide research and policy into the next century.
There were two rounds of paper solicitations.
The first call for abstracts went out in May 1996; nine
papers were commissioned that would advance the conceptual underpinnings
of three main issues in home and community-based services:
