Description:
This report is an introduction to the various cases of integrated care and independent living developed in SIMPHS3. It addresses the methodology applied for the field work, and provides further details on the fieldwork activity, together with a brief description of the typologies of health and social care actors interviewed. It also gives an overview of the number of Member States and regions covered in the study, how the cases have been analysed and the actors interviewed. It also presents an overview of the report structure used in all the cases so as to allow comparability. The structured questionnaire and the semi-structured interview key questions used in the field work are presented in the Annex.