Narrative review of home care for palliative patients in general practice

Abstract

The need of palliative care is constantly growing worldwide and the spectrum of patients and diseases, leading to the need of palliative care is very broad (1). According to recently published data in the "Letter for National Palliative Care Advocates to send to government lead on Universal Health coverage, and UN negotiations" (2) by 2060, an estimated 48 million people (47% of all deaths globally) will die each year with serious health-related suffering, and 83% of these deaths will occur in low-income and middleincome countries.Due to the phenomenon of the so-called "silver tsunami" (the increasing number of elderly, and those of them with severe, incurable, life-limiting and life-threatening diseases) the problem escalates dramatically. Thus, significant and urgent changes should be made in some basic documents, including "Suggested language changes to zero draft 'Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting on

Implications of end‐of‐life home care compared with hospital‐based care during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A case report

“…However, home care also has its drawbacks. Previous studies have reported challenges related to delivering urgent care when necessary 10 and difficulties in securing staff. 11 Further, it cannot be denied that there may be a risk of COVID‐19 infection due to frequent visits from health workers, families, and relatives.…”