Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
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This program provides a coordinated care intervention model that focuses entirely on older people who are frail enough to meet their state's standards for nursing home care. This program as been proven to work addressing the needs of elderly patients with multiple chronic conditions.
For consumers, PACE provides:
• Caregivers who listen to and can respond to their individualized care needs
• The option to continue living in the community as long as possible
• One-stop shopping for all health care services
For health care providers, PACE provides:
• A capitated funding arrangement that rewards providers who are flexible and creative in providing the best care possible
• The ability to coordinate care for individuals across settings and medical disciplines
• The ability to meet increasing consumer demands for individualized care and supportive service arrangements
For those who pay for care, PACE provides:
• Cost savings and predictable expenditures
• A comprehensive service package emphasizing preventive care that is usually less expensive and more effective than acute care
- Goals Prevention:
- Promotes adecuate understanding levels on the community about the importance of prevention
- Goals Detection:
- Shows new evidence on the importance of early detection, including guidelines of effective practices
- Goals Treatment:
- Develop basic elements for an integrated health system , Provides support health policies to facilitate the planning and integration at locally and regionally , Strengthens cooperative local groups to provide integral services , It facilitates the management by processes , Emphasizes the care of pluri-pathological and fragile patients
- Goals self-management:
- Refocuses the health system to support self-management , Promotes patient involvement in planning services , Improving support services with an emphasis on peer support, the disabled and carers , Allows remote support to patients and their carers from health professionals
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1/01/2007
Progress
11/01/2009
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Michigan
Michigan
Detroit
Capitol Commons Center 400 South Pine Street
