Home Care 

Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, Malin Dollinger, MD, Isadora Rosenbaum, MA, Pamela Lemkin, RN, BSN, and Stephen Lemkin, MD 

Most people feel much more comfortable in the warm, familiar surroundings of home than they do in a hospital or convalescent home. Medical facilities naturally seem strange. They are antiseptic, regulated and sometimes forbidding.
Yet many cancer patients prolong their hospital stay. Why? Because they—or their families are afraid they won't get proper treatment at home
or be able to cope with home care problems.
    These fears are understandable, but they
 can be overcome. Medical and non-medical
 crises can be anticipated. And they can often