What palliative patients and their carers need at home and what a primary health care team can offer – first pilot study in Slovenia

Abstract

Spending one’s last days and dying at home is a common wish of people with a life-limiting illness. Home-based palliative care is essentially organised at the primary level to meet the needs of palliative patients and their carers. The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of home-based palliative care, focusing on those who identify palliative patients, what their needs are and how this affects their length of life and site of death.

Keywords

• palliative care
• home care
• primary health care
• needs assessment
• paliativna oskrba
• oskrba na domu
• osnovno zdravstvo
• prepoznava potreb