Purpose A conceptual framework for collaboratively based integrated health and social care
(IHSC) integration is proposed to aid in understanding how to accomplish IHSC …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a case definition of integrated health and
social services initiatives that serve older adults, and will provide characteristics to aid in the …

Background Collaborations between health systems and community-based organizations
(CBOs) are increasingly common mechanisms to address the unmet health-related social …

Background: Interventions aimed at integrating care have become widespread in
healthcare; however, there is significant variability in their success. Differences in …

This study discusses how human service agencies implemented systems to improve service
coordination through structural integration or interagency collaborative service delivery …

Purpose–Health service organizations and professionals are under increasing pressure to
work together to deliver integrated patient care. A common understanding of integration …

Purpose “Integrated care”(IC) is an approach to health and social care delivery that aims to
prevent problems arising from fragmented care systems. The collective content of the IC …

Purpose–This paper aims to: analyze the challenge of health services fragmentation;
present the attributes of integrated health service delivery networks (IHSDNs); review …

As the research evidence on integrated care has evolved over the past two decades, so too
has the critical role leaders have for the implementation, effectiveness and sustainability of …

Results: A concept map was developed that identifies 8 overarching concepts across the
heuristic models. A preliminary analysis of one of these overarching concepts, care …