Collaboration of Hospitals and Home Care Providers - Lessons to be Learned from an Actual Case to Enable Patients to Keep Living at Home by Their Own Values
Ogiwara, M.; Irino, H.; Yamaoka, K.; Watanabe, M.; Ito, R.; Hirohara, M.; Kushida, K.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 43(Suppl. 1): 29-30
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 28028272 Document Number: 686666
The aging society has arrived, and home care options are being promoted. To date, because of an increase in the number of patients with higher disability levels in greater need of medical help and senior people living alone or in senior-person households, more patients are in need of discharge support. Many medical institutions cannot consider the option of staying at home and receiving home care services for such patients, and such patients often give up on going home. In the case of service recipients suffering from incurable diseases or disabilities and undergoing age-related changes, it is necessary that they decide on their own"where and how they want to live."For their decision to be respected, a key is collaboration with those who support patient discharge from the hospital and those who support patient home care. This paper explores a patient appropriate for level-3 care with brain hemorrhage and paralysis of the left half of the body. This patient required supportive and adaptive devices, a cane for walking, and constant observation. In consideration of the wishes of the patient and his family, he was allowed to go home.