BENEFITS
The home doctor is ideal because?
Assessing a patient at home allows you to see them in a more complete context, their interaction with their environment and family members, enriching the medical understanding of the clinical conditions that interfere with their health.
WHO BENEFITS?
• Elderly people with limited mobility, where transportation is possible but not practical.
• People who are very busy or with inflexible working hours who are not available to wait indefinitely for their turn.
• Acute health problem that leaves the patient unable to go to the emergency room or the health center.
• People with progressive and irreversible incurable disease, who need comfort measures and improved quality of life and who do not wish to go to a hospital environment (palliative care)
• Non-residents: people who do not know the city or country but need a doctor.
• Provide global home support to patients with chronic/degenerative diseases, preventing hospitalizations as much as possible and shortening the period of hospital stay in the event of complications.
• Reduce the risk of hospital infections.
• Involve the caregiver or family member in the chronic patient support process.
• Give the patient back the opportunity for family life.