Preventive Home Visits

Here is the brief history of Danish Preventive home visits:

• 1937 Health nurses visits home after childbirth
• 1950 the Danish Medical Association discussed whether functional decline was preventable with earlier interventions
  
• 1960-1970 District nurses 'knock on doors' in a local authority of Copenhagen
• 1980 the Roedovre project and the Commission on Older People suggest that preventive care be prioritised
• 1996 the Danish Act on Preventive Home Visits implemented to cover all +80 year old
• 1998 all 75+ covered by preventive visits
• 2002 Systematic scientific analyses of 18 controlled trials define criteria of effective preventive home visits
• 2005 Amendment of the 1996 Act reaffirms preventive home visits, but now more targeted to persons without need of personal help
  
• 2006 GP contract includes preventive home visits to frail older people
  

These are some pictures of Home Health Nurses on their bikes.


Nuns used to visit homes in earlier days.















A Home Health Nurse in Summer 2007. Social and Health care Helpers also ride bikes to visit clients.


















Home Health Nurses take one of these red cars from the nearby fire station for the evening home visits. Parking is a lot easier in the evening.