The home medical assistance market - Portugal

Medical assistance at home is a practice allowing the patient to benefit from medical care at home . The duration and therapeutic conditions of home assistance are as follows defined by a health professional . This type of benefit is intended for dependent, disabled or sick people. Home assistance generally requires the use of medical equipment, but differs from AHH (hospitalisation at home) because it involves less intensive care. The illnesses covered include chronic illnesses requiring recurrent treatment (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sleep apnea, diabetes, Parkinson's, etc.). Dominated by the North American market on a global level, the Portuguese home medical assistance market is growing, particularly due to the ageing of the population which favours the emergence of many private structures. One of the major opportunities east sector technological progress in the last decades that promises to be a growth enabler in the years to come