Home care programs emerged as an essential component of health care for the elderly and are generally based on hospital or community models. These models coexisted in Manitoba as elsewhere, but services were uncoordinated, fragmented, restrictive, duplicative, and not universally available. In September 1974, a comprehensive home care program was…

Canada's deinstitutionalization and decentralization of mental health services has confronted communities with many problems. Families of the mentally ill are being required to do major caregiving without being provided with the necessary resources, as this case study illustrates. Counselors and health care professionals involved with families…