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Community-based care for chronic illness requires a continuum of services. This article identifies three aspects of the organization of long-term care that are important in maintaining a continuum: availability, accessibility, and acceptability. Each category is illustrated by data from Missouri to demonstrate potential problems in each of the three areas that can prevent the chronically ill from obtaining needed services.
Steven P. Wallace (Sun,) studied this question.