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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: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 1533

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Robbert Gobbens

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Faculty of Health, Sports and Social Work, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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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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

Manuscript Submission Information

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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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State of the Art on Family and Community Health Nursing International Theories, Models and Frameworks: A Scoping Review
by Giulia Gasperini, Erika Renzi, Yari Longobucco, Angelo Cianciulli, Annalisa Rosso, Carolina Marzuillo, Corrado De Vito, Paolo Villari and Azzurra Massimi
Healthcare 2023, 11(18), 2578; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11182578 - 18 Sep 2023
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A Family and Community Health Nursing (FCHN) model was first conceptualized by the WHO approximately 25 years ago in response to the epidemiological transition leading to major changes in the population health needs. To date, no study has comprehensively explored the adherence of [...] Read more.
A Family and Community Health Nursing (FCHN) model was first conceptualized by the WHO approximately 25 years ago in response to the epidemiological transition leading to major changes in the population health needs. To date, no study has comprehensively explored the adherence of current applications of FCHN to the WHO original framework. We carried out a scoping review on PubMed, Scopus and CINAHL with the aim to compare the main features of FCHN models developed at the international level with the WHO’s framework. We identified 23 studies: 12 models, six service/program descriptions, four statements and one theoretical model. The FCHN models appear to focus primarily on sick individuals and their family, mainly providing direct care and relying on Interaction, Developmental and Systems Theories. While these features fit the WHO framework, others elements of the original model are poorly represented: the involvement of FCHN in prevention activities is scarce, especially in primary and secondary prevention, and little attention is paid to the health needs of the whole population. In conclusion, current applications of FCHN show a partial adherence to the WHO framework: population approaches should be strengthened in current FCHN models, with a stronger involvement of nurses in primary and secondary prevention. Full article
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