One Care launched a new initiative — a medical and social service called «Home Care»

The idea for the service arose in response to the urgent needs of people with limited mobility who live in remote areas where medical and social assistance is virtually inaccessible. The teams will provide services to people with chronic non-communicable diseases who have limited mobility (cannot leave their homes independently) and are of a respectable age. The project will pilot the One Care initiative until the end of summer in the Zdolbuniv and Demydivka communities in the Rivne oblast.

This format of assistance is unique for our country. In reality, rather than on paper, it combines the care of a nurse (medical component) with the care of a social worker and social worker (socialcomponent) at the client's place of residence.

Nurses will examine patients, while social workers will determine their social support needs and provide assistance as necessary. They will work closely with the project's mobile medical teams, local geriatric centers, rehabilitation departments of primary health care centers, and occupationaltherapists in the target regions.

We would like to thank the experts at Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève and the National Universityof Kyiv-Mohyla Academy for their support in developing the One Care initiative. We plan that One Care will not only provide tangible support to the most vulnerable members of the community, but will also help to develop the quality and professionalism of home care services at the local level and serve as a model for further scaling up at the national level.

The initiative is being implemented by the One Health agency as part of the Ukrainian-Swiss project «Act for Health» with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine.