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Care management has evolved from being perceived as a rather simple bureaucratic task performed by nonprofessionals to a complex and demanding intervention that requires a wide range of knowledge, skills, and resources. Although a variety of models exist, there is some agreement that most care managers need to be resource coordinators, service providers, planners, monitors, supporters, and evaluators. The focus of care management is not therapy or even service provision. It is managing, coordination, and guiding a client through a series of steps. These include an initial assessment, which defines both problems and strengths; planning; linking and coordinating; monitoring and supporting gradual change; and, finally, summarizing and closing. The provision of coordination of needed resources are essential to all care management. Those resources vary according to the specific issues presented by client. However, care managements typically need access to social resources to develop social network systems and reduce stressors in the environment; information about medical care and health; and, finally, physical resources, nutrition, nursing, social welfare including economic aid and adequate housing.