Home care is not impossible. It does not even have to be a hardship if all aspects are carefully thought out and worked through. The loving care of the family will surely provide dignified, positive care that will assure the loved one that he or she is appreciated and cared for and about. A dignified death at home in one s own bed of natural causes is the preferred method of dying for most of us. Long-term care facilities can and should be phased out, abandoned as a useless, destructive, unsuccessful method of caring for the elderly.
Home care can be much less expensive.
Home care can and should be encouraged, and assisted and supported by the government. Private duty nurses can be utilized for the care in the home of the patient when the family cannot due to physical or emotional impairments of their own. One of the most important positive features of home care is that of compliance perhaps the most difficult problem facing those who care for the elderly. When the patient is cared for at home, it is more likely that he will get his medication, on time and in the correct dose and certainly by the right route. Another advantage of home care is that of ambulating most people would prefer getting up to go to the bathroom rather than soiling their bed.