The following palliative care services are known to exist in Armenia:
Existing Services (2002)
Adult
Inpatient - Freestanding
0
- Hospital Unit
0
- Hospital mobile team
0
Nursing Home
0
Home Care
3
Day Care
0
Total
3
Paediatric
Inpatient
0
Home Care
0
Day Care
0
Unspecified
0
Total
0
Grand Total
3
Current Projects
The following palliative care projects are known to exist in Armenia; these are not yet operational services:
Known hospice/ palliative care projects (2002)
Adult
Inpatient - Hospital
0
- Hospice
1
Home Care
0
Unspecified
0
Total
1
Paediatric
Hospital
0
Hospice
0
Home Care
0
Unspecified
0
Total
0
Grand Total
1
The group 'Hospice of Armenia' (part of the 'Hoosaber' Foundation) began its work in 1999, providing home care and visiting patients in hospital in Yerevan and has plans for a freestanding hospice, with beds.2 It has had financial support from the Danish Missionary Council and has organised visits to low income families, providing medical and financial aid, including hired care givers for people with serious physical problems and has also contributed to the body of law relating to patient care and hospice. In addition there appear to be two other palliative care services, 'Sakura' and 'Mekenas', though their status and links with Hospice of Armenia are unclear.
Armenia has an oncological dispensary in Yeravan and a network of district oncologists 'who conduct palliative treatment of cancer patients in the final stage at home.3
There are no palliative care services for children: 'There is no hospice homecare [for children] in Yerevan and the whole region. The patients with incurable disease of the blood get palliative care in the children's department of the Haematological Centre. These patients either stay in our department to the end, or die at home without any help.4
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