[Terminal care for one-person household].

In addition to visitor medical-examination service, Mutsumi-cho clinic (Minami-ku, Yokohama-city) started a home care service in October 2008. The number of one-person elderly house-hold is 8,483 (about 10%) out of 84,399 house-hold in Minami-ku where 200,000 people reside. We report here our experience in the terminal care of one-person elderly person who lives at home.