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Abstract: The Home care is a set of ambulatory activities programmed and continued developed at
home with actions which seek the preservation from a health problem, its maintenance through
elements that strengthens good factors to the person and, at the same time, the recovery of the client
already affected by a disease or a sequel. This work has as an objective discuss doubts about the
services of home care and the action of the physiotherapist in this sector, whether in the supplemental
health or public. This is a work of literature revision done by searches realized, on the websites
LILACS, PUBMED, SciELO, Google Academic, and in the collection of books and magazines of the
library from Universidade Vale do Rio Doce. The home care in Brazil, nowadays, may be realized by
the Unique Health System (SUS) or by the private. In the Public System it is realized through NASF
(Center for Family Support), and in the Private it is subsidies in supplemental and liberal classical. The
liberal classical is composed by autonomous service and the additional. The physiotherapy in the
home care is extremely important for the population both in the private sector and in SUS (Unique
Health System). However, few studies were found about the home physiotherapy. More studies are
necessary to increase the scientific evidences of this way of action.