During the 20th century and at the start of the 21th, there have been many demographic and socio-anthropological factors that have caused changes to the health system, and more specifically, in the area of home care.

On one hand, demographic changes derived from lower birth rates, higher life expectancy and increasing numbers of senior citizens, and on the other, socio-anthropological changes that have modified the family system and model, care of the patient and family involvement in treatment.

The country's health policy is geared towards integrated and continuous care of the patient and family, fostering domiciliary care as the backbone of care giving and developing new domiciliary care resources. This approach has been reinforced by the Personal Autonomy and Care for People in a Dependency Situation Act.

- Degree

- Participation in at home care teams

- Specific at home hospital services

- PADES Services (At home care support team programme)

- Assessment teams for people in dependency situations according to the Law of Personal Autonomy and Care Promotion

- Freelance practice (At-home care business management)

- Other

• Montse Sole
• Phone: 938757348
• E-mail: efc@fub.edu
• Web: http://www.fub.edu/efc