...conditions and their families confront. Over the past few decades, people with chronic health conditions have turned increasingly to health care providers...multiple services, medical care has often been fragmented and impersonal. Furthermore, the health sector has largely ignored the economic and social difficulties...

...service delivery system in this country. Over the past decades, people with chronic health conditions have turned increasingly to health care providers...assistance with their diverse health and social problems. The health sector, unfortunately, is organized for the most part to deal with discrete health problems....

...prolonged periods (eg 3 months or more). Over the past few decades, people with chronic health conditions have turned increasingly to health care providers...with chronic health problems survive longer, public decision-makers are under increasing pressure to expand or reorganize long-term care assistance programs....

...prolonged periods (eg 3 months or more). Over the past few decades, people with chronic health conditions have turned increasingly to health care providers...with chronic health problems survive longer, public decision-makers are under increasing pressure to expand or reorganize long-term care assistance programs....

...prolonged periods (eg 3 months or more). Over the past few decades, people with chronic health conditions have turned increasingly to health care providers...inadequate, and Impersonal. As the elderly population Increase and as more people of all ages with chronic health problems survive longer, public decision-makers...