This Case Is Closed: Publications

Closing the Home Care Case: Clinicians' Perspectives on Family Caregiving

Publication Date: 06.15.2006
Author: Alene, Hokenstad, Andrea Y. Hart, David A. Gould, Deborah Halper, Carol Levine
Published in August 2005 in Home Health Care Management and Practice, “Closing the Home Care Case: Clinicians' Perspectives on Family Caregiving” (abstract available) reveals five inherent conflicts that affect home health care clinicians' interactions with family caregivers, as revealed in focus group discussions.

Closing the Home Care Case: Home Health Aides' Perspectives on Family Caregiving

Publication Date: 06.15.2006
Author: Alene Hokenstad, Andrea Y. Hart, David A. Gould, Deborah Halper, and Carol Levine
Published in June 2006 in Home Health Care Management and Practice, “Closing the Home Care Case: Home Health Aides' Perspectives on Family Caregiving” (abstract available) provides new insight from, and identifies two current challenges facing, home health aides, as revealed in focus group discussions.

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

Publication Date: 06.15.2006
Author: 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.