Contemplating on the end of integrated care-Part I: Anticipating creative destruction.

Abstract

In this article, the author frames the development of integrated care and the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) through the ecocycle planning model. With four distinct stages of development and renewal-gestation, birth, maturity, and creative destruction-the ecocycle planning model encourages organizations to consider ways to ask questions to avoid a rigidity trap, which in the model appears as a process after maturity. As CFHA approaches its 30th year in 2024, the author documents a rough, imperfect history for a shared understanding of how integrated care and CFHA reached maturity and invites the readers to engage in critical questions to avoid the rigidity trap. The author contends that integrated care as a movement and CFHA as an organization have the capacity and a history of learning to ask informed questions to avoid falling prey to the rigidity trap. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).