1Division of internal Chinese medicine, Linsen Chinese Medicine and Kunming Branch,
Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
2Department of Chinese medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
3Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
4Division of Traumatology in Chinese Medicine, Linsen Chinese Medicine and Kunming
Branch, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
5Division of Family Medicine, Linsen Chinese Medicine and Kunming Branch, Taipei City
Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
6Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Linsen Chinese Medicine and Kunming Branch,
Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
【Summary】
With the increase of elderly population in Taiwan, the health care for people with multiple diseases and disability becomes an important issue. The patient-centered, interdisciplinary integrated home health care must be a consequential trend of medical care. Physicians of TCM begin to concern the development of home health care of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the existing home health care team of western medicine. The integration of TCM and WM in home health care will bring more comprehensive care to the patients in community. In this article, we share the experience of home health care of TCM in integrated home health care team for a disable patient in community. The interdisciplinary collaborative home health care for the patient include Chinese herbal medicine, manipulation, acupuncture by physicians of TCM, medicine by physicians of WM, and other efforts from psychologists, physiotherapists, nurses, social workers, dietitians and so on. We also discuss the advantages, challenges and future prospects of TCM in integrated home health care. Physicians of TCM and WM provide different treatments for various discomforts of patient through a comprehensive understanding of her health conditions. The team of integrated home health care provided medical treatment, spiritual support, and companionship for patient and her family members. The team of integrated home health care provided medical treatment, spiritual support, and companionship for patient and her family members. In sum, humanized medical service which provides patient-centered, interdisciplinary collaborative, comprehensive, persistent, and medical service for patients will be the direction of development of home health care.
【Keywords】integrated home health care, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese