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Home Based Care - Thukela District Child Survival Project
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Home Based Care General Guidelines:
- There is a Home Based Care volunteer or a Community Health Worker trained in HBC in your community.
- Their main job in HBC is to teach families how to care for ill family members at home
- HBC givers are linked to the health system ( clinics, hospitals), but also to community structures (community health committees, health forums, community based organisations, churches etc)
- HBC works towards holistic wellbeing for people:
- Physical wellbeing: How can someone be as physically well as possible?
- Spiritual: How can someone have a right relationship with God? How can someone's life have real meaning?
- Psychological: How can someone have feelings of wellbeing about themselves and their situation?
- Social: How can someone have good relationships with all those around them and important to them?
- Developmental: How would a person like to develop themselves?
- HBC aims to give ill people and their families legitimate hope for the future
Who should be cared for at home?
HBC can help people who are ill with HIV or AIDS, and also people who are elderly, or have other illnesses requiring care at home.
The full version of this document can be downloaded on the righthand side of this page
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