Guest editorial: Managing Community Care

ABSTRACT

Intermediate care integrated, local and personal The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened awareness of the need to scale up safe, effective and person-centred community alternatives to acute hospital care, particularly for people with chronic conditions or frailty. The continuum of intermediate care services includes Rapid Response alternative pathways for falls;Hospital at Home;discharge to assess and nurse-led transitional care programmes;reablement and rehabilitation at home;and step up and step down beds in community hospitals, care homes or skilled nursing facilities. [...]Corbett and Lewis share a personal reflection on their experience of rapid redesign of a community Frailty Support Team in response to the pandemic.