table of contents
- Advantages and disadvantages of staying at home
- Benefits of staying at home
- Disadvantages of staying at home
- When to consider staying at home
- On starting home
- palliative care
- Various home services and rental of welfare equipment
- home service
- Rental of welfare equipment
- home support team
You can also receive medical care for cancer at home rather than at a hospital or clinic. Home health care allows cancer patients to live comfortably and receive medical care in a familiar environment. Considering quality of life, hospitals are not always better and home may be a better environment. If you have terminal cancer and medically difficult to recover, you can use the long-term care insurance system if you are over 40 years old. When receiving nursing care at home, it is important to work closely with the person, family, and specialists such as doctors, nurses, care managers, and helpers. While using home-visit care and home-visit nursing, if you combine day services and short stays, you can receive a full range of nursing care services even at home.
Advantages and disadvantages of staying at home
Benefits of staying at home
(1) By spending time with family, cancer patients feel at ease and feel safe.
(2) Painkillers can be reduced during hospitalization.
(3) In a familiar environment, you will be able to sleep better than during hospitalization.
There are various benefits to home care, but please check and review from time to time to see if the treatment is what you want, and make it even better.
Disadvantages of staying at home
(1) There is a physical and mental burden on the family for nursing care such as physical and excretion problems, a physical and mental burden on cancer patients, and an economic burden on cancer treatment.
②Because it is not a hospital, there are no well-equipped medical facilities, and doctors cannot respond immediately.
When to consider staying at home
On starting home
(1) Share information about current symptoms and future prospects among family members, and decide who will communicate with medical personnel.
(2) Confirm who the couple, children, and relatives will cooperate with home medical care for cancer, and share the treatment policy, including treatment costs, and what you want to cherish as a family, and the family’s thoughts will take precedence.
It should be in line with the wishes of the cancer patient, rather than However, there are cases where cooperation is not possible due to individual circumstances, and there are cases where home medical care is viewed negatively. It doesn’t matter if it’s just a little help, such as being someone to talk to, so check with your acquaintances and friends to see if they can help you with home medical care.
(3) It is not necessary to prepare everything from home renovation (stairs, corridor handrails, etc.) and welfare equipment (purchase/rental) from the beginning. After you start working from home, you should be prepared if necessary.