Term: Home Care

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Glossary Definition

Last Updated: 2016-06-01

Definition:

This term has different definitions in MCHP research. The majority use definition 1 below.

1. Health services provided free-of-charge to residents of all ages within their own homes (Martens et al., 2003) or in Supportive Housing units (Doupe et al., 2016). The types of services available through the Manitoba Home Care Program include: personal care assistance, home support, health care (e.g. nursing care), family relief, respite care and supplies and equipment provided to individuals within their own home (Finlayson et al., 2007) . Unlike other areas of utilization, home care is primarily provided within a Regional Health Authority (RHA) for its residents and is unlikely to generate large expenditures on out-of-region residents (Finlayson et al., 2007) . The RHAs have operational responsibility for Home Care including planning, delivery and ongoing management of the services.
   
   The Manitoba Home Care Program, established in 1974, is the oldest comprehensive, province-wide, universal home care program in Canada (Martens et al., 2003) . The provision of Home Care services are based on assessed need and other resources available to the individual including families, community resources and other programs (Finlayson et al., 2007) . Reassessments at pre-determined intervals are the basis for decisions by case managers to discharge individuals from the program, or to change the type or amount of service delivered (Martens et al., 2003) .
   
   Home care clients can be identified as persons registered in the Home Care Manitoba Support Services Payroll (MSSP) database, Home Care MDS Assessment database (WRHA only), or in the Procura database, depending on the time frame of the research project.
   
   
2. It is also known as "Home-Based Care" and is one of 13 alternative levels of care (ALC) (De Coster et al., 1996) .

Related concepts 

• Access to Home Care
• Home Care and Hospitalizations
• Home Care and Personal Care Homes (PCH)
• Home Care Episodes of Care: Methods for Creating Home Care Episodes
• Intensity of Home Care Use
• MCHP De-Identified Home Care Client File

Related terms 

• Access to Home Care
• Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
• Adult Day Hospital
• Alternate Level of Care (ALC)
• Assisted Living
• Average Length of Home Care Case
• Block Care
• Case Management
• Chronic Care
• Continuing Care
• Days "Open" to Home Care
• Days Open of Home Care
• Direct Services
• Family Relief
• Family-managed Care
• Home Care Costs
• Home Care Data
• Home Care Days
• Home Care Days Used
• Home Care Episodes
• Home Care MDS Assessment (WRHA) Data
• Home Care per diem
• Home Care Prevalence
• Home Care Program
• Home Care Use
• Home Care Utilization MSSP (Manitoba Support Services Payroll) Data
• Home Care, Average Length of Case (In-Year Days)
• Home Care, Case Closings
• Home Care, Days of Service Received
• Home Care, New Cases (Incidence)
• Home Care, Open Cases (Prevalence)
• Household Assistance
• Indirect Services
• Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
• Intensity of Home Care Use
• Interim Housing
• Long Term Care Access Centre
• Manitoba Support Services Payroll (MSSP) Database
• Meals on Wheels
• Open Home Care Cases (Prevalence)
• Palliative Care Program
• Pediatric Home Care
• Personal Care
• Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (RAI-HC©)
• Respite / Respite Care
• Self-managed Care
• Single Entry
• Support to Seniors Program
• Supportive Housing

Links 

• Manitoba Home Care Program Web Site

References 

• De Coster C, Peterson S, Kasian P. Alternatives to Acute Care . Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health and Evaluation, 1996. [Report] [Summary] (View)
• Doupe M, Finlayson G, Khan S, Yogendran M, Schultz J, McDougall C, Kulbaba C. Supportive Housing for Seniors: Reform Implications for Manitoba's Older Adult Continuum of Care. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2016. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Finlayson GS, Forget E, Ekuma O, Derksen S, Bond R, Martens P, De Coster C. Allocating Funds for Healthcare in Manitoba Regional Health Authorities: A First Step--Population-Based Funding. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2007. [Report] [Summary] (View)
• Kozyrskyj A, Lix L, Dahl M, Soodeen R. High-cost Users of Pharmaceuticals: Who are They? Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2005. [Report] [Summary] (View)
• Martens PJ, Fransoo R, The Need to Know Team, Burland E, Jebamani L, Burchill C, Black C, Dik N, MacWilliam L, Derksen S, Walld R, Steinbach C, Dahl M. The Manitoba RHA Indicators Atlas: Population-Based Comparison of Health and Health Care Use. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2003. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)

Term used in 

• Chateau D, Doupe M, Walld R, Soodeen R, Ouelette C, Rajotte L. Projecting Personal Care Home Bed Equivalent Needs in Manitoba Through 2036. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2012. [Report] [Summary] [Updates and Errata] (View)
• Doupe M, Kozyrskyj A, Soodeen R, Derksen S, Burchill C, Huq S. An Initial Analysis of Emergency Departments and Urgent Care in Winnipeg. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2008. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Doupe M, Fransoo R, Chateau D, Dik N, Burchill C, Soodeen R-A, Bozat-Emre S, Guenette W. Population Aging and the Continuum of Older Adult Care in Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2011. [Report] [Summary] (View)
• Fransoo R, Martens P, Prior H, Chateau D, McDougall C, Schultz J, McGowan K, Soodeen R, Bailly A. Adult Obesity in Manitoba: Prevalence, Associations, and Outcomes. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2011. [Report] [Summary] (View)
• Fransoo R, Martens P, Burland E, The Need to Know Team, Prior H, Burchill C. Manitoba RHA Indicators Atlas 2009. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2009. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Fransoo R, Martens P, The Need to Know Team, Burland E, Prior H, Burchill C, Chateau D, Walld R. Sex Differences in Health Status, Health Care Use, and Quality of Care: A Population-Based Analysis for Manitoba's Regional Health Authorities. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2005. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Fransoo R, Martens P, The Need to Know Team, Prior H, Burchill C, Koseva I, Rajotte L. Who is in our Hospitals.and why? Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2013. [Report] [Summary] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Garland A, Fransoo R, Olafson K, Ramsey C, Yogendran M, Chateau D, McGowan K. The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Critical Illness in Manitoba. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2012. [Report] [Summary] (View)
• Martens PJ, Bartlett J, Burland E, Prior H, Burchill C, Huq S, Romphf L, Sanguins J, Carter S, Bailly A. Profile of Metis Health Status and Healthcare Utilization in Manitoba: A Population-Based Study. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, 2010. [Report] [Summary] [Updates and Errata] [Additional Materials] (View)
• Mitchell L, Roos NP, Shapiro E. Patterns in home care use in Manitoba. Can J Aging 2005;24 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):59-68. [Abstract] (View)
• Peterson S, Shapiro E, Roos NP. Regional variation in home care use in Manitoba. Can J Aging 2005;24 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):69-80. [Abstract] (View)
• Shanahan M, Steinbach C, Burchill C, Friesen D, Black C. A Project to Investigate Provincial Expenditures on Health Care to Manitobans: A POPULIS Project. Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation, 1997. [Report] [Summary] (View)