community care
Neighborhood health services
Community care is a model of supporting people with mental illness, disabilities, or chronic conditions within their local community rather than in institutions.
The approach emphasizes home-based services, outpatient treatment, and social integration: The hospital closed its long-term wards as patients transitioned to community care.
The term emerged as psychiatric hospitals and residential institutions gave way to decentralized support networks.
- mental health servicesTreatment for psychological conditions
- food banksDonation-based hunger relief centers
- meal deliveryFood brought to you
- drop-in centerFacility requiring no appointment
- transitional housingTemporary supported accommodation
public health campaigns · mobility aids · emergency shelters · safety net · wheelchair ramps · mainstreaming · universal design · group homes · social worker · grassroots organizing · public health · outreach programs · volunteer networks · neighborhood watch · peer counseling · support group · crisis hotlines · home nursing
- care ethicscaregiving, nurturing, responsibility, responsiveness, attentiveness
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- social servicessocial workers, social work, social services, welfare office, case workers
- NHSNHS, GP, A&E, 999, 111
- community mental healthmental health services, mental health centers, mental health clinics, outpatient services, crisis intervention
- disability servicesdisability benefits, disability services, disability allowance, disability advocacy, disability payments
community careinstitutional care
Professional supervision in facilities
institutionalization · hospital care · inpatient care · nursing home care · custodial care
community caresegregation
Forced separation by group
confinement · warehousing · isolation · institutionalization · institutionalism