Choosing to die at home
Description
Choosing to die at home involves enabling terminally ill individuals to spend their final days in familiar surroundings, supported by family and community-based palliative care. This strategy addresses issues of institutionalization, loss of personal dignity, and emotional distress by coordinating medical, emotional, and logistical support at home. It aims to improve quality of life, respect patient autonomy, and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, ensuring comfort and dignity in the dying process.
Context
Despite the fact that the majority in surveys express a wish to die at home, this is increasingly difficult with the disappearance of the extended family and the loss of sense of neighbourhood.
Implementation
The Natural Death Centre in the UK was founded to confront taboos about death and primarily to support families with a dying person at home.
Terminally ill Belgians who want to die at home will receive 19,500 BEF a month from the beginning of 2000.
Broader
Facilitated by
Value
SDG
Metadata
Database
Global strategies
Type
(D) Detailed strategies
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J2327
DOCID
12023270
D7NID
201715
Editing link
Official link
Last update
Dec 3, 2024