The quality of life of people with slow-healing wounds is strengthened through the introduction of therapeutic and nursing activities administered in long-term homecare nursing, as based on case studies

Kołodziejczyk Monika, Stasiak Elżbieta, Stasiak Karolina, Stasiak Łucja, Grzegorczyk Michał. The quality of life of people with slow-healing wounds is strengthened through the introduction of therapeutic and nursing activities administered in long-term homecare nursing, as based on case studies. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(12):49-66. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2019.09.12.006

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 Received: 15.11.2019. Revised: 24.11.2019. Accepted: 16.12.2019.

The quality of life of people with slow-healing wounds is strengthened through the introduction of therapeutic and nursing activities administered in long-term homecare nursing, as based on case studies

Monika Kołodziejczyk¹, Elżbieta Stasiak², Karolina Stasiak³, Łucja Stasiak³,

Michał Grzegorczyk⁴

Student of the Medical University of Lublin, Faculty of Health Sciences, Master's Degree, Nursing¹

Medical University of Lublin Department of Oncology and Community Health Care, Department of Oncology²

STASIAK Medical Team II Elżbieta Stasiak³

Medical University of Lublin, Department of Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy⁴

Summary

The quality of life of people with slow-healing wounds is a multi-faceted concept which focuses on the functioning of patients in many spheres of life.

Two characteristics of patients qualified for long-term homecare nursing are multi-morbidities and senior age. The coexistence of several chronic diseases, including atherosclerosis, is associated with the presence of a number of healing and caring problems, for example, slow-healing wounds. The social security in Poland in the domain of long-term homecare nursing is at a very low level, as reported by the Central Statistical Office in 2015, with only 4 out of 1000 people using  long-term nursing care in a home environment.

Key words: quality of life of people with multi-morbidities, slow-healing wounds, long-term homecare nurse, senior age.