For the betterment of home palliative care
Midorikawa, Y.; Iiduka, M.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 37(Suppl 2): 246-248
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 21368539 Document Number: 643090
The problems we have identified to overcome for a betterment of home palliative care were as follows:(1) Staffs' low level of knowledge and a lack of interest in home care, (2) Lack of cooperation between hospital and clinic, (3) Hard to keep the medical and caregiver staffs employed in the home care settings and a technical training is behind, (4) Insufficient cooperative networks for elderly care and welfare in the region, and (5) Misunderstanding of home palliative care by patient, family and people in the region. It is important to solve these problems one by one for a betterment of home palliative care. In this paper, we reported these problems through actual activities of our hospital and Iwaki city, and we propose to deal with them.