CHOICE: Innovation in Community Care for the Elderly

Abstract

Identifying effective preventive interventions which can preserve the autonomy and the maintain health of elderly persons living in the community is paramount. Health service restructuring in Alberta, Canada provided the impetus to implement an integrated community-based program to address the fragmentation and lack of coordinated services for the frail seniors. The program content and approach taken by two organizations in partnership with the Capital Health Authority (CHA) in Edmonton, Alberta is described The outcomes study results of a recent evaluation of the CHOICE program is reviewed.