Health care at Home: The Perfect Blend of Convenience and Benefit

Home-based healthcare, one of the fastest growing sectors in healthcare, brings home, literally, to patients an option, not just in terms of the various kinds of services they wish to avail, but also the place at which they wish to avail these services. This presents a big opportunity for the sector to grow as a support system for institutional healthcare and offer more affordable and comfortable services to people.

While the people who require Healthcare at home mainly constitute the geriatric population, people suffering from chronic disorders and those requiring post-operative care, treatments for cancer and physiotherapy, but the scope of home-based healthcare is certainly not limited.

Individuals with such health issues face a bigger threat when they avail public medical health services and often get affected with Hospital-Acquired Infections. Therefore, there is an increasing need of home healthcare services. Here are few ways home-based healthcare would help you:

-It saves you from hospital-acquired infections: According to the statistics and factsheet provided by the WHO, 10 out of every 100 patients acquire at least 1 Hospital-Acquired Infection, most common being the Urinary Tract Infection. Home-based healthcare helps save patients from all kind of hospital-acquired infections.

-It is best option while dealing with chronic ailments and illnesses: Home-based healthcare works best in cases where severity of disease or prolong illness makes even simple activities like reaching the hospital too much effort for the patient. Healthcare at home not just offers ease and comfort to the patient but improve treatment outcomes by ensuring protocol driven treatment at home.

-It adds convenience: What could be more convenient than getting best of medical care by highly qualified healthcare professionals, working in extremely structured set-up under supervision of treating doctor, right in the comfort of your house? This leads to better customer satisfaction and helps patients to regain the ability to look after themselves following illness.

-It helps you save money: You may call it icing on the cake! Contrary to common perception that a home-based healthcare costs too much, in long run, it actually cuts down the treatment cost by saving your money on hospital visits, stays, infections and readmissions due to lapse in care. 

With the ratio of the number of doctors available to the number of patients requiring treatment highly skewed, home-based health care becomes a more feasible as well as convenient and cost-effective option for not just the patients, but also for the doctors.

Source: HealthCareAtHome