Caring : National Association for Home Care magazine
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Innovative home care programs, providing a variety of services to persons with HIV infection and their families and reflecting different health, political, cultural, social, and philosophical concepts, have been developed in Africa, starting in 1987. In 1989 the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS conducted a descriptive study of some of these programs. It is hoped that these experiences will assist planners and health care providers in their decision making and thereby benefit persons with HIV infection and their families. The lessons learned about the context, backgrounds, structure, process, and outcome of the six selected home care programs can be used and adapted by policymakers and program planners in their own settings when deciding on "their" model of home care.
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The Dominican Republic needed to assess its aging population to develop an understanding of its needs and expand opportunities for integrating the elderly into society. The two articles included here offer a perspective on how this small nation undertook such a task. First, a Kansas State University study found the country's elderly poor, hungry, and uninvolved. Under a new national strategy, which redefines the aged as an asset rather than a liability, the country is working to coordinate efforts of diverse organizations to include the aged in their projects--no small feat in a developing country.