Hospice — a homecare service for terminally ill cancer patients in southern Switzerland

✍ Scribed by M. Lang Meier; H. Neuenschwander

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 371 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0941-4355
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00364978

✦ Synopsis

We describe the circumstances that led to the building up of a home care service for terminally ill cancer patients in a part of southern Switzerland. We describe the goals, the structure and the functioning of this service as it works in two areas. We give some results of a retrospective study on hospitalization, home care and death at home.