Solutions For HomeCare Physiotherapy Services

The world faces a new challenge: loss of autonomy

• 9% of people aged over 60 are losing their autonomy (source[FR]: Insee, France).


• A total of 1.6% of GDP goes to financing this loss of autonomy (source: OECD) and 74.55% of this cost was met by the public authorities.
  Between now and 2060, the total cost in % of GDP is forecast to increase by 65.9%.


• Major impact on the population: it takes on average 3.3 family members or friends to support a person who is no longer independent (source: Insee, France)

Current infrastructure of the hospital sector is likely to prove inadequate in the short term (source: The World Bank).

Home care practices meet OECD’s policy to control health expenditure

They offer many advantages compared to traditional practices:

• lower patient transport costs


• no accommodation costs


• reduced exposure to nosocomial infections


• lower risk of loss of autonomy following a hospital stay


• fewer social repercussions for families


• care can be “subcontracted” to independent practitioners

Depending on the illness, the cost of home care can be 3 to 10 times lower than the cost of conventional hospitalization.

Patients like home care and would recommend it to others, according to the results of 2 flagship studies in France in 2015*:

• 93% of patients are satisfied with this type of care


• 95% of patients said the care met with their expectations


• 50% reported being able to work on personal projects because they stayed in their environment


• Patients cited the main benefits of home care as:
  • staying in your everyday environment (69%)
  
  
  • remaining with family (55%)
  
  
  • avoiding travel (38 %)
  
  
  • avoiding nosocomial infections (37%)

* Studies by the Fédération des Prestataires de Santé à Domicile (France, 2015) and the Centre de Recherche d’Etudes et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé (France, 2015)