title: [Problems in the home palliative care revealed from questionnaires at lecture workshops organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Home Palliative Care Support Center].
abstract: Tokyo Kosei-Nenkin Hospital operates the Tokyo Metropolitan Home Palliative Care Support Center (TMHPCSC) commissioned from the Tokyo metropolitan government. TMHPCSC held one lecture workshop for healthcare professionals and one symposium for general citizens in fiscal year ended March 2008. Questionnaires were distributed to the attendants at the beginning of meetings and collected at the end. Several problems in the present home palliative care system were revealed from the questionnaires. Those include problems associated with palliation skills, cooperation among multiple professionals, especially between medical staff and caring staff, transition from hospital to home and aging of society. These problems should be tackled as issues of the whole society.
authors.affiliation: Home Palliative Care Support Center, Tokyo Kosei-Nenkin Hospital.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawabata
authors.forename: Sanae
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kanbe
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaneishi
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takayama
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D006699:Home Care Services; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014041:Tokyo