Community Care for Older Adults—the Patient/Caregiver Perspective

Our June 2017 issue focuses on a number of original research articles examining community care from the point of view of both patients and caregivers. Figueiredo et al.(1) demonstrate, using cross-sectional data, that simply asking older adults their self-reported health status can be suggestive of a need for further rehabilitation services. We also present the results of a CIHR-funded conference that used qualitative methods to examine the barriers and challenges to caregiver access of community supports.(2) A qualitative study by Piraino et al.,(3) using both focus group and individual interviews, also examines the potential of online networks to assist in longstanding community-care issues such as communication and the sharing of information