Home health care programs save up to 63% of public health resources.
Home healthcare services save the healthcare system up to 63% in healthcare resources. With them, the patient receives personalized care adapted to his or her changing needs, comprehensive care of the same quality but in the patient’s home, and can avoid trips and hospital admissions. Up to 75% of people want to be able to die at home, a figure that rises to 90% in the case of terminally ill patients. In response to this need, Suanity, Top Doctors’ center of excellence, has developed personalized health care services to accompany, guide and treat people with chronic or oncological diseases or those requiring palliative care.
“Currently only 30% of patients in Spain end their days at home,” explains Dr. Joan Carles Trallero, medical consultant at the Suanity center for the care of people with chronic, oncological and advanced or end-stage diseases. “The need to have resources close by makes it necessary on most occasions to keep the patient in the hospital center. However, the work of our professionals and this model of medical care is to bridge this gap. The gap between those who want to die at home and those who finally manage to do so. Medical care at home is a guarantee for the quality of the patients, and for that of the family members who care for them, as it is a real help for them in every sense, but above all, social, psychological and emotional”.
Increase in chronic diseases and personalized home health care services
According to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), care for the chronically ill has grown in recent years and it is predicted that the number of cases could triple by 2050. With home healthcare services, the improvement in the patient’s life can reach 100%, since conventional structures are difficult to adapt to the problems presented by the sick.
“We are noticing a growing trend in the demand for this type of service,” says Alberto Porciani, CEO of Top Doctors, “More and more families are relying on them, as they provide independence and comfort, and what is almost more important, they respond to the manifest desire of most patients to spend their last days at home.” Since 2007 Suanity has cared for a total of 1,519 people in Spain and, of all the deaths, up to 70% took place at the patient’s home.
With this type of healthcare services, patients with chronic, oncological or terminal diseases have access to outpatient (outpatient consultations, day hospitals, ambulatory surgery), home (hospital-based home care or home hospitalization), and remote (including telemonitoring and videoconsultation) medical services.