"This Case Is Closed": Family Caregivers and the Termination of Home Health Care Services for Stroke Patients

Author/Editor: Carol Levine, Steven M. Albert, Alene Hokenstad, Deborah E. Halper,
Andrea Y. Hart, and David A. Gould

Published in June 2006 in The Milbank Quarterly, “‘This Case Is Closed': Family Caregivers and the Termination of Home Health Care Services for Stroke Patients” provides an overview of the prospective study. The study enrolled and periodically interviewed a sample of 99 New York City family caregivers taking care of stroke or brain injury patients following their discharge from a hospital or short-term nursing home stay.

Copyright: 2006
Published: 06.15.2006

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