Integrated Care for Older Adults: A Struggle for Sustained Implementation in Northern Netherlands

Discussion: The majority of health outcomes were positive and the perceived quality of care improved, albeit no clear-cut savings were observed, and the costs were not balanced across stakeholders. The Embrace payment model did not support the integration of health services, despite reforms in long-term care in 2015.Key lessons: Enabling policy and funding are crucial to the sustained implementation of integrated person-centred health services. The payment model should incentivize the integration of care before the necessary changes can be made at organizational and clinical levels towards providing proactive and preventive health services. Published on 2020-07-13 10:41:13
Source: International Journal of Integrated Care - Category: Nursing Source Type: research