,Respite Home for the Elderly: An Experiment in Community-Based Services in Israel

Respite Home for the Elderly: An Experiment in Community-Based Services in Israel


 

Publication Date: January 1988

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Estelle Pleban; Zev Hymowitz

Research Area: Health

Keywords: Elderly; Health; Social Services

Type: Report

Coverage: Israel

Abstract:

This article discusses a respite home in Jerusalem. This home is a short term community-based facility for elderly patients discharged from local hospitals who could not get immediate service and, because of lack of families to look after them, could not retum home.