Santé Service Bayonne: a French approach to home care.
The home care of the elderly, the physically handicapped, and the terminally ill, as practised by a non-profit-making organization in south-west France, is described. Peripatetic nurses, nursing aides, and physiotherapists enable patients to remain in their own environments, and also relieve the acute hospital services. Costs are borne by the French health insurance schemes.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005602:France; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D012017:Referral and Consultation