The ability to respond to a variety of stimuli.
Effective adaptation promotes health or system integrity.
Ineffective adaptation may impede progression toward health. The Adaptation level is a changing point influenced by the demands of the situation and the person's internal level of functioning. A collection of people with common attributes but without shared patterns of interaction. Case management is a system of health assessment, planning, procurement, delivery, coordination and monitoring through which the multiple service needs of clients are met across the continuum of health care. When the client is an individual, the focus is on the health state, problems, or needs of a single person.