부산대학교 도서관

According to previous studies, dying at home is a wish of most terminally ill patients; however, various clinical problems pose a big challenge for terminally ill patients who wish to die at home. Nowadays, most hospice home care teams are made up of hospital-based care, making it hard to afford accessibility and timely home care visits. Besides, it is challenging to promote community hospice home care due to insufficient community medical staff involvement and lack of hospice home care experiences. Therefore, terminally ill patients and their families lack the confidence to die at home, and finally, some of them chose to die in the hospital. In this article, the experienced hospital hospice care team assisted the community hospice care team in visiting terminally ill patients, arranged care discussions regularly, and constructed an integrated hospice home care network. The experienced hospital hospice care team's case manager posed a mutual connection window to help terminally ill patients and their families refer to an appropriate hospice home care team. The home care team aims to help terminally ill patients go back to the community area smoothly and receive accessibility to timely home care based on their needs. It would carry out the whole community hospice care and help patients dying at home.