Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
1: Integrated Care in Ireland: Progress from Policy to Practice to Date / Tom O’Connor
SECTION I: ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC POLICY INSIGHTS FROM IRELAND AND ABROAD
2: The Integrated Service in Northern Ireland / Jim Campbell, Gavin Davidson and Michael Donnelly
3: Integrated Discharge Planning: A Programme Manager’s View / William Reddy
4: Which is the Right Model of Universal Health Insurance for Ireland? / Steve Thomas and Catherine Darker
5: Integrated Care: Pathfindings from Sweden / Bengt Ahgren and Runo Axelsson
SECTION II: THE BIOMEDICAL AND SOCIAL INTERFACE OF INTEGRATED CARE: THEORY, POLICY AND SERVICE USERS’ NEEDS
6: Integrated Diabetes Care: “It Means Different Things to Different People” / Sheena McHugh and Ivan Perry
7: An Examination of the Irish NDRIC Framework of Integrated Care for Drug Users / Laura Desmond and Tom O’Connor
8: The Future of Integrated Care in Ireland / Vanessa Hetherington, Faisal Shaikh and Sean Tierney
SECTION III: INTERPROFESSIONAL CHALLENGES: POLICY TRANSLATION AND PRACTICAL DELIVERY
9: Challenges for Primary Care on the Road to Integrated Care / Diarmuid Quinlan and Joe Moran
10: Interprofessional Education: Applying an International Programme in an Irish Context / Ona McGrath
11: Primary Care, Social Work and Integrated Care: A New Way of Delivering Services? / Deirdre Jacob
12: Primary Care Teams in Ireland from the Perspective of General Practice / Margaret O’Riordan and Claire Collins
SECTION IV: INTEGRATED CARE, THE OLDER PERSON AND DEMENTIA
13: Health Service Integration for the Elderly: An Uneven Journey in Canada / Margaret MacAdam
14: Dementia and Integrated Care: A Dream or Reality? / Suzanne Cahill
15: Integrated Care for Older People in Ireland: Perhaps Jam Tomorrow? / Desmond O’Neill
16: Integrated Care Pathways for People with Dementia: Exploring the Potential for Ireland and the Forthcoming National Dementia Strategy / Kate Irving, Lisa McGarrigle, Grainne McGettrick and Maurice O’Connell
SECTION V: INTEGRATED CARE FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICE USERS
17: Integrated Care in Mental Health / John Saunders
18: Integrated Care Pathways in Mental Health: Recent Developments in Scotland / Mark Fleming, Linda McKechnie and David Thomson
19: Equal Recognition Before the Law: A Call for a Statutory Social Care Advocate for Vulnerable Adults in Integrating Health and Social Care / Moira Jenkins
20: Integrated Supports for People with Disabilities / Eithne Fitzgerald
Conclusion