[Home care services: working together of interdependent family and professional assistants' networks].

Abstract

1. Definition of one population need homecare for instance get assistance by a family's helper. 2. What are the diseases of that population, what about reductions of the mobility, what are the needs in terms of helping or assistance for: --the daily works, --the heavy household activities, --the essential activities in case of illness. 3. If the patients are not able to do one or several works, who help? Are there one or several professionals or/and one or several members of the social environment? 4. Are all the patients helped in the same way by the same helpers, for the same works? What kind of persons help the patients and for what work? 5. Is the situation similarly for the totality of the population? 6. No, there are many differences, for instance according to the patient living alone or not. 7. Evaluation of the cost for the patient of homecare.