Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève

MMS Bulletin #154

Juni 2020

Mobilizing resources to improve end of life care at home

Lessons learned from two pilot municipalities in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Worldwide, many patients at the end of their life express a preference for spending their last days at home. As in many other low and middle-income countries, the current situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina makes it challenging for such a desire to be a reality. To better respond to the needs and expectations of terminally ill patients, we assessed the needs they had at the end of their life, trained health care workers and volunteers, and developed a coordination mechanism to mobilize available resources around the individual. We wish to present our participative approach, share the tools we developed, and the lessons learned from our experience in two pilot municipalities.