Welcome To

HOME-BASED CARE

Definition: 

Home-based care is the provision of health services by formal and informal caregivers in the home in order to promote, restore and maintains a person’s maximum level of comfort and function.

 Classification of home-based care  

• Preventive
• Promotive
• Therapeutic
• Rehabilitative
• Palliative

 Rational  

With and increasing non-communicable diseases, the complication thereof and aging population impending impact on the communities, the best to provide individualize care for healthy people, people with chronic illness and their families in this way a holistic person-centered care would be more effective in maintaining and restoring a person’s health. Also receiving the care while at the comfort of your home having your family members around you provides one component of the recovery.

Whom does the program assist? 

The program is directed to the following people  

• Healthy people
• At risk or older person
• People with disabilities
• People recovering from illness and need assistance e.g. After delivery or after specific treatment
• Terminally ill persons
• Person living with chronic illness such as diabetic, hypertension, HIV/aids, mental illness.

Confidentiality 

Like any professional setting the right to privacy and keeping patient’s information confidential is one of our priorities. As guided by the code of conduct in safeguarding the privacy of individual, families and communities, our main duty is to maintain confidential of all patient information both personal and clinical and in work place or off duty. We believed that an integral professional relationship can only be maintain if there is trust therefore keeping patient sensitive information at all cost as the law demand strengthen the relationship and enhance quality of care.