Abstract: A method is provided for conducting and managing community care using an information system. The method essentially includes the steps of a) identifying a client and establishing a profile in a computerized database; b) identifying a care plan for the client, including health and social problems and pathways to achieve desired outcomes, and recording in the database; c) interacting with the client according to the pathways and recording in the database; d) visiting the client to determine status of problems and progress of pathways and recording in the database; e) assessing the results and, if necessary, revising the care plan; and, in the desired outcomes are achieved, closing the care plan, otherwise scheduling further tasks to accomplish the pathway, recording in the database, and repeating steps c) through f). The information system includes a display device, a computing device having a computerized database, an input device, and a pointing device.