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- Home care helps clients stay at home
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- Symptoms of delirium
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Home and Community Care
Formerly Home Care
Home care helps clients stay at home
How clients rated whether home care services helped them to stay at home, in a 2024 survey (see data dictionary).
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What do you think?
- Why does it matter if home care helps clients to stay at home?
- Are there differences between zones? Between mainly rural and urban zones? What factors could account for these differences?
Understanding âstay at homeâ
In a survey conducted from April, 2024 to September, 2024, Health Quality Alberta asked clients receiving home care:
Thinking of home care services you received through a government home care program, did these services help you stay at home.
Clients could choose:
- Yes
- No
- I don’t know
A goal of home and community care is to support people to live well, safely, and independently in their home for as long as possible.
Considerations when viewing the results:
This data reflects the experiences of home and community care clients. Home and community care includes publicly funded professional health and personal care services that help clients live safely and independently in their own homes or communities. Settings where clients receive care are diverse, ranging from a private residence, seniors lodge, community clinic, or adult day program. Services may be received for short-term or long-term durations.
There are several factors providers and leaders can consider to better understand and improve client experiences. Some questions they could ask before taking action include:
- Are clientsâ responses similar or different from other zones?
- What do you know about the context in which a zone operates that may help you to understand those differences?
- Are there questions with lower results that suggest an opportunity for improvement?
- Are there questions with higher results that highlight what you are doing well and is there an opportunity to sustain this?
- Are there resources provided in the Home Care Client Experience Survey Resource List: Home and Community Care Providers, Case Managers, and Staff (2025) or the Home Care Client Experience Survey Resource List: Home and Community Care Leadership and Decision-makers (2025) that can help you and your team make improvements?
- Can the Improvement Guide for Using Survey Results (2025) support you to identify and create a quality improvement plan?
- What other information might help you understand or interpret the results?
For information about the 2024 Home Care Client Experience Survey, please visit Health Quality Albertaâs website.