[Dying-home hospice care--the terminally-ill cancer patients]

It is essentially important for home hospice care, which provides hospice care at home to palliate the patient's sufferings, such as pain for example, and to provide cares in the form of the interdisciplinary team approach. Though the actual way of providing hospice care at home is principally based upon an institutional hospice care, there are some which are peculiar to home hospice care. The principles of symptom control in case of home hospice care are: (1) to take account of patient's daily life, (2) to make much of the natural course of the disease, (3) to palliate the patient's sufferings by focusing on the subjective complaints and (4) to provide relief on medical aspect at home. As for the interdisciplinary team approach, a special consideration of the members to visit the patient's home as few as possible in order to keep the patient's life quiet.