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The Role Of Rehabilitation In Home Health Care Of Taichung Area, Huey-Jen Lai, Horng-Jeng Shyn, Wen-Hong Pan, Kuen-Lin Wu, Kuo-Ming Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

All cases of home care under the service of the Nurse Assiciation of Taichung City from Oct. 1989 to Dec. 1991 were collected to evaluate sex, age distribution, major caretaker, main disease entities, referral source, service items and prognosis. Questionaire was made for home care nurses of Taichung area to evaluate their training back grounds; disease items of clients and the percentage of the individial items; rehabilitation items that they think they could do, want to learn to do and hope the involvement of rehabilitative specialists; and the major causes interfering the receivement of rehabilitative home care.In 171 cases collected, …