Compensatory Goals For Home Care

Article Summary: The article discusses the two classification of goals for home care: therapeutic goals, and compensatory goals and the potential of integrating the two goals to reform home care goals. The tasks and responsibility for each program varies housekeeping to nursing/medical care to care management. Therapeutic goals are “measurable improvement on parameters of physical, psychological, or social functioning.” Compensatory goals are designed to “provide services to compensate for functional impairment, thus enabling consumers to pursue their own goals.”
These goals are classified into 10 categories:
1) Improving or maintaining health
2) Promoting comfort and free of pain
3) Improving or slowing down deterioration of functional