title: [Support for patients with a respirator at home].
abstract: Five patients with a respirator were managed at home by staff from our visiting nurse station. One patient has been at home for 4 years after discharge. She is 60 years old. Her disease was striatonigral degeneration. Five years ago she could not breathe because of her disease and breathing with a respirator was started. However, she and her family wanted her to be at home. We respected their wish, and helped her stay at home. She has maintained a good condition with nursing at home, and her QOL is high.
authors.affiliation: Kouseiren Hiroshima Visiting Nurse Station.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Furumoto
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mimura
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D020955:Striatonigral Degeneration / Q000628:therapy*; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical