Under the title ‘Lives that save lives’, the Health Service today spreads on social networks human stories that take place in different homes in the Balearic Islands.
The primary care health centres of the Balearic Islands attended a total of 290,266 home care consultations throughout 2024, 35% more than in 2019, when 214. 980 consultations were recorded. Today, 12 April, Primary Care Day, the Health Service is highlighting home care, where very special links are usually created between healthcare professionals, patients and families.
To make them visible, the Health Service is today disseminating, through social networks, several stories that take place in some homes in the Balearic Islands. Under the title ‘Lives that save lives’, four stories are explained: the visit to a complex chronic patient in Santa Margalida, the attention of the ESAD team to a user requiring palliative care in Manacor, the relationship between a social worker and her patient in Maó, and the departure of an urgent care team in Ibiza.
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Home consultations in primary care have increased by 35% in the last five years
Home care stands out for its humanisation, proximity and warmth. The aim is to offer people who need it, families and carers comprehensive and multi-professional care, in accordance with their needs, respecting autonomy and values, and aimed at promoting self-care and co-responsibility of the individual and their family in order to improve the quality of life.
The target population of this programme are people who, given their health situation, find it difficult to access the health centre and can benefit from home care. It is also aimed at people with complex and/or advanced chronic illnesses; people who have been admitted to an acute or intermediate care hospital and who need continuity of care; people who, given their fragility or circumstances of functional loss, are at risk of falls or other complications, and all carers of patients included in the programme.