Yvette: Integration Of Care
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Yvette,
Yes, well-developed integration of care is the only solution for an ever growing and aging population. The benefit of the three systems working more closely together would mean that the whole human is treated for whatever length of time is needed to recover , rehabilitate or kept comfortable until they expire. Because health is a “state of complete physical, mental and social well -being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (Funk, Saraceno, Drew & Faydi, 2008,p. 2008, p. 5)
However, the expense, of caring for the whole person, prevails as the reason that it does not occur. Hospitals have refined their ability to get patients in treated and discharged, usually for the maximum billable amount. They treat but, often