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The whole point of community-based healthcare (CBHC) is to assist people with healthcare problems to have the choice of living in their own home. In today’s society in Australia, it is now possible for that to happen for people with a wide range of bodily impairments or healthcare concerns, including for example, living with a ventilator, cognitive impairment or impaired mobility.
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Horton, M., Tasker, D. (2017). Being a Client. In: Tasker, D., Higgs, J., Loftus, S. (eds) Community-Based Healthcare. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-995-9_6
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