Abstract
The purpose of home care is for patients to regain their independence so as to be able to take care of themselves as much as possible and to be able to spend meaningful time for the rest of their lives. In order to achieve this goal, we demonstrated the effectiveness of a newly developed critical path for home care patients. It was essential to minimize the discrepancy of the level of the standard care among the caring staffs. The critical path developed in this case is based on the degree of the care regarding the different health conditions of patients, their everyday life and functional training.
As a result of this study we succeeded in an expansion of daily living (ADL) activities, an improvement of the degree of care needed and a standardization of the quality of home care services.
