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Telecare and Palliative Care

Siniša Franjić

Abstract


Digital technologies offer new opportunities for the transformation of the health care system, including new approaches to personalized prevention, treatment and care, independent living, integrated health and social care, accelerated scientific advances in early diagnosis and disease prevention. Home health care, which involves a complex and responsible service, is provided by nurses licensed to work independently. The goals of home health care are to enable patients to take care of themselves, to become independent of other people's help or to make their daily lives easier. Nurses will help with advice, professionalism and a warm word, restore confidence and strength and lead the patient on the path to recovery. Home care provides continued health care after the patient leaves the hospital, spa and other institutions. Palliative care at home is not the only form of providing palliative care. Given that we live in a world of modern information technologies, the question arises whether health care, and especially palliative care, can be provided using these technologies. The answer to this question tries to give in this study.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijgn.v6i1.2312

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