Private home care services
End-of-life care in the home
At Private Health, we believe that home is the best place to spend one’s final days. That is why we provide both palliative and end-of-life care in the patient’s own home—always in close collaboration with the caregivers who have already been part of the care process.
- Tailor-made courses
- Licensed nurses
- Aesthetics and care
Terminal nursing care at home -
spiritual care in the last phase of life
The spiritual dimension is a central part of our approach to providing end-of-life care. The spiritual dimension encompasses both existential and religious aspects and becomes particularly prominent when a person is confronted with the fragility of life and their own mortality.
As life draws to a close, there is often a deep need to find meaning, reconciliation, and peace—whether in one’s own beliefs, in relationships with loved ones, or in one’s faith. It is a need that municipal care services rarely have the time or capacity to address.
Our experienced palliative care nurses provide support throughout this process by helping to create meaning and coherence, fostering reconciliation, alleviating pain, and helping patients refine their self-image. We are there—as professionals, but also as fellow human beings who recognize that the final days hold something greater than what we can measure and document.
What is private home nursing care?
Home-based palliative care provides care and support to people in the final stages of life. However, instead of admission to a traditional hospice, palliative care is provided in the client’s own home. The goal is to create the best possible conditions for a dignified and peaceful end of life in the client’s own home, surrounded by the things and people that matter most.
At Private Health, end-of-life care is provided by licensed nurses with experience in palliative care. They are there not only as professionals, but as people who understand that the final days require more than just medication management and practical care—they require presence, calm, and deep human understanding.
End-of-life nursing care at home differs from municipal care in that it offers you and your loved ones greater peace of mind and continuity. There are no waiting times, no changing faces, and no strict time constraints. Instead, you and your loved ones are cared for by a dedicated team of nurses who know you and adapt to your wishes and needs during this final stage of life.
Your trusted provider of private terminal care
At Private Health, we look at the whole person—not just the illness or the time remaining. We believe that presence, dignity, and professionalism are the foundation for a positive experience in life’s final phase, and our goal is to support both the client and their loved ones in ensuring the best possible final days in their own home. As a trusted private provider of end-of-life care, we offer, among other things:
Dedicated point of contact, dedicated nurses
You will be assigned a dedicated point of contact as well as a hand-picked team of nurses.
24/7 on-call phone – round-the-clock availability
You can reach us 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This provides peace of mind and security,
Private end-of-life care with a focus on aesthetics and spiritual care
We coordinate your care and treatment, ensuring continuity and security throughout.
How does end-of-life care at home work?
Terminal Illness Certificate: When a person is seriously ill or dying, and life-prolonging treatment is no longer an option, a doctor issues a terminal illness certificate. The certificate provides access to a range of services—including free medication and the option of care leave for family members. Private Health helps obtain the certificate and orders the necessary medication immediately.
Assistive devices: We provide necessary assistive devices such as hospital beds, pressure-relieving mattresses, and medical supply kits.
Home Design: We design the chosen room with a focus on the right acoustics, soft lighting, and a comforting atmosphere—based on what you’d like to have around you. Aesthetics are a deliberate part of our care, and we ensure that the room doesn’t look like a hospital ward, but feels like a peaceful and familiar place to be.
The Nurse’s Role: Our nurses have overall responsibility and closely monitor the client. They alleviate pain and anxiety and also provide direct care such as bathing, hair care, oral hygiene, and changing clothes and linens—and, above all, they are there to offer their presence and care every step of the way.
Starting a terminal care pathway
You contact us
We always start with a conversation - non-binding and at your pace. Here we listen to your wishes and needs. You are welcome to call, write or let a relative get in touch.
We will visit you
We come to your home so we can get a sense of your surroundings and talk more specifically about how we can best support you in your everyday life.
Your private nursing team
You'll have a dedicated team of nurses who follow you throughout the process. This gives you peace of mind and ensures that you don't have to start from scratch every time.
Let's get started
Once everything is in place, the process starts slowly and smoothly. We adapt to your rhythm and needs and make sure you get the help and support you need.
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The aesthetics of nursing
As early as the 1800s, nurse Florence Nightingale highlighted the importance of aesthetically pleasing surroundings, and she was early to understand and describe the importance of different aspects of the client's environment such as color, light and fresh air. In addition, the social dimension of care in terms of proximity to the nurse.
At Private Health, we are aware of how space affects the human senses and well-being, and how, by stimulating these senses in the best possible way, we create a foundation and a prerequisite for our clients to achieve a sense of well-being and balance. The size of the home makes no difference, all rooms can be made safe, calm and comfortable to be in.
Care
People at the end of life depend on us as nurses to create this aesthetic and comfortable atmosphere. Therefore, at Private Health, we use our nursing judgment to create a space that helps the dying person leave behind feelings of chaos, anxiety, powerlessness and suffering. We believe that this is one of the paths that must be traveled for a dying person to move calmly and quietly towards the last breath of life.
At Private Health, we consider it our duty to ensure that our client is never alone on the journey towards the end of life. And we consider it one of our finest and most beautiful tasks to shape and set the stage for this journey to be as good and safe as possible.
We do this by including the spiritual and aesthetic dimension in our nursing care, always paying close attention to the dying person's senses.
Soothing treatment that eases symptoms
Even if it's not possible to get treatment for your underlying condition, you can get treatment to control and ease symptoms.
This is what is known as palliative or palliative care. The symptoms you relieve can be of:
- Physical nature (e.g. nausea, fatigue, pain)
- Mental nature (e.g. anxiety, depression)
- Social karakter (boligforhold, børnepasning, pension)</b
- Spiritual/existential nature (e.g. guilt, doubt, anxiety)
The importance of early palliative care
Focusing on palliative care as early as possible in the course of a person's illness is very important, as it can free up energy to focus on what's really important to you and your loved ones.
Even when death is imminent, many people manage to make the best of their final days, either alone or with their loved ones.
How long can you be in palliative care?
In principle, in today's world of palliation and palliative care, you can be in palliative care for weeks, months or sometimes years.
How Private Health can help in palliative care
One of the basic elements of a calm final period can be that a terminally ill person makes their needs known. However, this can be difficult as terminally ill people are often very tired and lack energy and strength.
Here Private Health can help you extend your thoughts, formulate letters and prepare all the practicalities that need to be in place before you enter your final phase of life.
The energy around you is everything we can't account for with methods and manuals, but which we know you can benefit from paying attention to and being aware of. A well-balanced energy in body and mind helps to create a calm space and atmosphere around you.
The relationship with relatives
Easing the energies around you can be about anything from your physical surroundings, smells, sounds and more. But also about unresolved relationships in your family, which we as a compassionate catalyst can address by continuously talking to and reassuring your relatives.
The purpose of being with you during your palliative period is to prepare your final days as best as possible so that you, as a terminally ill person, can move towards the end of life with peace of mind.
What is palliative care?
Palliative care is a term often used when discussing people with terminal illnesses. The term "palliative care" is the medical term for providing relief to people suffering from a life-threatening illness. When told that no further treatment is possible, many people ask themselves: What now?
Palliative care is not about giving up, but about focusing on what is still possible: relieving pain, preserving dignity, and creating the best possible environment for the time that remains.
Care is not reserved for the very last days. It can begin early in the course of an illness and be adapted on an ongoing basis as needs change—physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually. For many, early palliative care means freeing up energy to focus on what truly matters: relationships, moments, and goodbyes.
We've received some nice words along the way
Over the past year, Private Health has provided outstanding care for our aging mother with nurses, personal assistants, and physical therapists. With deep professionalism and great human warmth, they have created security and comfort in her everyday life. In addition to all the health care, Private Health also ensures that the home is always kept tidy, that it is aired out, that there are fresh flowers on the table, and that meals are prepared with care and respect for our mother's wishes.
After falling and breaking her elbow earlier this year, they retrained her with determination, so that she is now stronger and more mobile than before. And perhaps even more importantly, they have rekindled her zest for life. Our mother now enjoys going for walks, visiting museums, and meeting up with friends—always with Private Health as her loving support.
My siblings and I are not always able to be there for our mother. That's why it's wonderful to know that we can always count on the dedicated, professional, and caring staff at Private Health—a company with a lot of warmth and soul—thank you!
Family in Rudersdal
We have been using Private Health for more than 8 months with great pleasure and satisfaction.
We have nothing but praise for the care, professionalism, and tireless problem-solving we have encountered throughout this period.
Regardless of the duration and content of the assignment, Private Health has accommodated our requests—even during the many urgent needs we have had during this period.
Every time, we have received prompt responses, suggested solutions, and kind and patient colleagues who have been very supportive of our sick mother and our challenged father.
We highly recommend Private Health—they have been the main reason why we, as relatives, have been able to get through a very difficult period.
Family in Hørsholm
I sought home care for my father during a vacation in Mols. Private Health found a local home caregiver within a few days who provided care for my father. Very professional and highly efficient service. They went to great lengths to find a solution for us in an area they do not normally serve. A pleasure and highly recommended.
Relatives in Frederiksberg
Private Health helped me with my rehabilitation, and it made a huge difference. I was met with care, calmness, and professionalism—and I felt truly seen. Thank you for your support; it meant more than you can imagine.
Client in Rudersdal
Dear Private Health and the entire team,
Thank you so much for stepping in during an acute and very critical situation for my mother and our entire family. Your professionalism and care was fantastic and very competent.
Highest recommendations from here.
Frederik
When our father became terminally ill, he wanted to spend his last days at home and we struggled to get public assistance, but ran into long waiting times and summer vacation.
Private Health and the entire team were our salvation! In just a few days they set up absolutely amazing help and support with visits and care every day and were incredibly flexible in quickly adapting care as the disease progressed.
Thanks to Private Health and the amazing and highly professional nurses, our father got the end of life he wanted.
Family in Nærum
After the death of our father, it was difficult for our mother to be on her own a lot and we couldn't cover visiting her every day ourselves. Therefore, it was a great support that Private Health was able to help with 2-3 weekly visits to our mother for a few months at very short notice.
Pleasant visits, chatting and short walks gradually helped her through the first difficult time".
Daughter, Louise
What do we offer?
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Private terminal nursing prices
Nurse practitioners
- Weekday rate (8:00 a.m. to midnight): DKK 675 per hour
- Weekday night rate (12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.): DKK 745 per hour
- Weekend daily rate (8:00 a.m. to midnight): DKK 795 per hour*
- Weekend night rate (midnight to 8:00 a.m.): DKK 895 per hour*
- Holiday rate (12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.): DKK 1,150 per hour**
- Holiday rate on 12/24 (from 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. the following day): 1,350 DKK per hour**
- Holiday rate on December 31 (from 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. the following day): 1,350 DKK per hour**
- The minimum shift length for nurses is 3 hours during the day and 8 hours at night (midnight–8 a.m.).
*Weekend rate starts Friday 16:00 until Monday 08:00 inclusive.
**Public holiday rate starts at 00:00 on the day to the following business day at 08:00
Holidays are as follows:
- New Year's Day (January 1st)
- Maundy Thursday
- Good Friday
- Easter Sunday
- 2nd Easter Sunday
- Ascension Day, Pentecost
- 2nd day of Pentecost
- Christmas Eve
- Christmas Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve (December 31).
Subsidies from insurance and pension companies
In special cases, we encourage clients to investigate the possibility of subsidies from Sygesikring Danmark, insurance and pension companies or other related health insurances.
In this connection, Private Health can inform you that in the event of terminal care, Sygesikring Danmark provides an amount of approximately DKK 12,000. In order to receive this benefit, various declarations must be obtained from the doctor/hospital. Private Health is happy to assist in obtaining these. In all cases, we recommend that clients and/or relatives contact the relevant organizations for further information.
Aesthetic care at the end of life
It is important that the home does not look like a hospital room. That's why we incorporate aesthetics into our care to the very end, because we believe that this is one of the ways to bring peace and rest to our dying patients.
In the last days of a person's life, they usually stay in bed, with a nurse present to support both the dying person and their loved ones.
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Support in the terminal phase
Private Health helps you in the time leading up to, during and after, with all these practicalities. One of the first things we take care of is:
Obtaining your terminal statement: In this, your treating physician writes that there is no longer justification for providing life-prolonging treatment.
The declaration is also a referral that allows us to order the medication you need for your final period. This medicine is expensive, but with a declaration it is free.
We make sure to pick up the medication right away: In addition, we order and requisition the aids that will be needed during this final period. This often includes a hospital bed, a pressure-relieving mattress and various items needed for medication administration.
Living room design: Together with you, we have agreed which room in your home you would like to be in. We make sure to design your room with the right sound, calm light and safe atmosphere in mind, based on everything you want to have around you.
Where it's most convenient, we set up a small "invisible nursing office" where all our tools are carefully tucked away, but still close at hand.
The role of the nurse in the terminal phase
The nurse has the overall overview and responsibility, and it is the nurse who observes you intensively. She observes if you show signs of agitation, pain or breathing problems. The nurse will give you medication at short intervals to relieve pain and agitation. This is so that you can move out of life calmly and at rest.
Personal care in the comfort of your home
The nurse is also the one who provides more direct care for you: She bathes you in bed, washes your hair, combs it, performs oral hygiene, changes your clothes, linen, puts a little lip balm on your lips, and gently massages your hands and feet with a pleasant cream. She opens and closes the windows regularly so that you are always in a well-tempered room with fresh and clean air.
If you have any special needs, we will often have discussed these with you before you enter your final days. Our most important nursing task is to be with you and relieve you and your relatives, so that you can have a good and peaceful final time together.
Caring adaptation of the home for terminal care
For end-of-life care, home should be a place of peace and dignity. At Private Health, we strive to create a safe and caring environment for terminal care.
We make sure the home adapts to the new needs - whether it's switching to a care bed, installing handles or removing doorsteps.
Our focus is always on creating the best possible framework for a safe and dignified ending in your own home.
Coverage of private terminal
care via insurance company
Private Health is a provider of terminal care at Top Danmark.
This means that with Top Denmark insurance, you will be able to cover all or part of the costs. In addition, Denmark covers with a lump sum.
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