How to recover from a surgery, we are doing more and more of our own home. This is made possible thanks to the growing army of carers, irregular domestic workers, and nurses, from family and home.

the Nurse, Tatiana is Six, it is what they call a herintreder. After a brief experience in hospital and applied for them again, when her first employer, the White-Yellow Cross in West Flanders, belgium. “I had no contact with the patients,” she says.

“At home you come across, for weeks, and even years, in the same patient. You will create a bond, and you can really make a difference. It was a lot of fun when you welcome with open arms are waiting for you. That I wanted to do it again. The variety is what I like. The one thing I have a problem to take care of it next time, I will give advice on hygiene, care of or do I have to do an interview with the caregiver.”

According to the RIZIV / inami in Belgium to slightly more than 32, 000 nurses are active in the home care sector (figures as of 2018). “The majority of nurses remains in hospitals the natural choice,” says Henry Of the Transports, the general co-ordinator for the White-Yellow Cross Flanders. “However, we note that it is also home to the popular 5-year period of time, there are 5,000 to thuisverpleegkundigen has been added, ed.). When people are more likely to go home after the surgery, it is the job of the thuisverpleegkundige more technical, more complex, and therefore more attractive. This also applies to the home care services we can now offer a more educational placements of students to the industry and to attract does.”