Canadian family physician Médecin de famille canadien
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To examine how FP and practice characteristics relate to the provision of home visits. ⋯ Most FPs in Nova Scotia who responded to our survey reported doing home visits. This is an encouraging finding for the care of vulnerable older adults and runs counter to the widely held view that home visits are a dying art. Nevertheless, given that older male FPs are more likely to do home visits, there could be work force implications as these FPs retire. As the population ages, strategies to support home visits will be an important area for further research and policy development.