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Conceptual Framework for Development of Long-Term Care Policy 2. Conceptual Model*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

François Béland  and
Delphine Arweiler
François Béland
Affiliation:
Université de Montreal
Delphine Arweiler
Affiliation:
Université de Montreal
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Abstract

Planning of long-term care (LTC) focusses on four themes: (1) developing priorities to reflect values; (2) setting up human service organizations governed by a set of rules and procedures; (3) choosing objectives to which participants and organizations are commited; (4) mobilizing resources. A conceptual scheme for LTC planning could draw on each of these four structural elements. But they might prove to be a set of separate concepts only linked to each other intuitively, unless they are linked through action processes. The total number of reciprocal relationships between the four planning elements is 12. We have therefore identified 12 different action processes to be examined whenever LTC planning is undertaken. These processes allow information from the four structural elements to circulate between them. For example, priority, organization and objectives are sources of information when choosing criteria for the allocation of resources. Thus the processes form bridges between the planning elements. These bridges must be used whenever planning is undertaken in order to ensure that all the elements are given equal weight. Whichever planning element is used as a starting point for LTC planning, the process knits the structural elements together into a whole. Using our conceptual scheme as a guide, planners can cover the whole field of LTC that it represents.

Résumé

La planification des services de longue durée (SLD) s'organise autour de quatre themes: (1) le développement d'un ordre de priorités qui referent au monde des valeurs, (2) la mise sur pied d'organisations de prestation de services régis par un ensemble de regies et de procedures, (3) le choix d'objectifs qui engagent les acteurs et les organisations et, (4) la mobilisation de ressources. Un schema conceptuel pour la planification des SLD peut emprunter à chacun de ces quatre elements structuraux. Mais ces elements risquent de rester qu'un ensemble de concepts plus ou moins disparates, plus ou moins lies entre eux de façon intuitive. Des processus d'action établissent des liens entre ces elements. Le nombre total de rapports possibles entre les quatre elements de la planification sont au nombre de 12, mais puisque ces quatre elements s'influencent mutuellement, les processus qui les unissent doivent refléter ce double mouvement. Nous avons done identifïé 12 différents processus qui doivent ètre examines dans tout effort de planification des SLD. Ces processus permettent à l'information contenue dans les quatre elements structuraux de circuler les uns vers les autres. Par exemple, les elements de priorité, d'organisation et d'objectifs sont des sources d'information pour le choix de critères d'allocation des ressources. Les processus construisent done des ponts entre les elements de la planification, des ponts qui doivent tous ètre empruntés dans toute demarche de planification pour assurer que tous les elements soient pris en consideration, sans que l'un soit négligé au profit d'un autre. Done, peu importe l'élément de la planification choisi comme point de depart dans un effort de planification des SLD, les processus unissent les elements structuraux en un tout. Notre schema conceptuel, s'il est utilise comme guide, permet de couvrir le champ des SLD, tout le champ qu'il a saisi.

Keywords

Long-Term CareConceptual FrameworkPlanningTheory of ActionSoins de longue duréeschema conceptuelplanificationactionalisme
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Articles
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , Hiver/Winter 1996 , pp. 682 - 697
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1996

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