Implications of end‐of‐life home care compared with hospital‐based care during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A case report

Abstract

Restriction on hospital visits for COVID-19 infection control continues to have a significant negative impact on patients and their families. For a patient receiving palliative care, this social isolation may deteriorate their mental health. In such situations, home care could be a viable solution to this problem.

The gap between attitudes toward life, death, and bereavement and the actions of local health care systems: The case of Yakushima, a world natural heritage site in Japan

“…Furthermore, similar to how the bubonic plague affected views of death, dying, and bereavement in the 14th century, the recent COVID-19 pandemic provided people with an opportunity to reveal a limitation of end of life health care systems and reconsider their beliefs and attitudes toward death, dying, and bereavement [ 2 ]. Additionally, restrictions on hospital visits for patients with COVID-19 have also stressed an emergent need for actions towards attaining a good death [ 12 ]. These issues cannot be solved if the cultural and social contexts are ignored; therefore, strategies from the local level about issues between end-of-life health care systems and individual beliefs toward life and death are vital.…”