Providing medical care to someone outside the atmosphere of traditional hospital is not a new idea. Long before modern medicine, by necessity, tending to the people at home. The caregivers of past generations generally were members of the family or friends. At present, however, there are many options available according to the needs of the individual and family.

The change in the medical assistance, directed toward the reduction of the stay at a hospital and the increase of the elderly population, are factors that make the home health care, hospices and elder care are part of continued growth in the scenario of current health care. Each of these approaches of