Home hospic care

The goal of the thesis is to answer the questions that come from author's professional experience in home hospice care. Could a social worker, already a part of a multidisciplinary team, be a coordinator of a case to be entrusted with a leading role in a case? Would a multidisciplinary team and a client benefit from a social work method case management which appears as a connector of health and social services? What should be the goal of a social worker as a coordinator of a case in home hospice care? The thesis begins briefly with specifics of home hospice care and defines relevant vocabulary concerning multidisciplinary team. The principle of cooperation of a multidisciplinary team in home hospice care is a complex view of a client and his/her quality of life and his/her close ones. The thesis also addresses the benefits and a role of a social worker as a profession within a multidisciplinary team of home hospice care. The aim is to define and show the necessity and a position of a social worker in multidisciplinary team of home hospice care. Further, it also touches a case management method its use in home hospice care, its advantages, and disadvantages; it states the duties of a case coordinator. Finally, the paper compares two home hospice care providers in Vysocina County with the findings described above