Background: Home health care is considered as a partial substitute for institutional long-term
care, because patients and families with known poor prognoses prefer to stay home with …

The need for palliative care is increasing due to the rising burden of non-communicable
diseases and some communicable diseases. Chronic illnesses demand patient-centred …

The purpose for this observational research was to understand how Can Support provides
palliative care at home and analyze its strengths and weaknesses in various socioeconomic …

Palliative care aims at improving the quality of life of a patient who is suffering from a chronic
serious ailment like that of advanced cancer. Nobody wants to be away from his/her own …

Background: Home-based palliative care (HPC) is a community-based palliative care
approach with various advantages over institutional care like comprehensive care at …

Background The well lauded community-based palliative care programme of Kerala, India
provides medical and social support, through home-based care, for patients with terminal …

Background: Family caregivers are of vital support to patients receiving home-based
palliative care. Aims and Objectives: This study sought to identify and comprehend the …

Background Home-based palliative care is an essential resource for many communities. We
conducted a qualitative study to explore perceptions of a home-based palliative care …

Background: 40 million people in the world are in need of palliative care, but only one-
seventh of that population receive services. Underuse of palliative care in low resource …

Background Norway has one of the lowest home death rates in Europe. However, it is the
health authorities´ ambition to increase this by facilitating palliative care at home. The aim of …