PALLIATIVE CARE
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is life-enhancing, supportive care. It is a comprehensive care that addresses the physical, psychosocial, practical and spiritual dimensions of a chronic illness. Palliative care can provide effective pain management to patients who have years to live. Patients have the most to gain from palliative care when it is started earlier in the treatment process. Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that focuses on reducing the severity of symptoms and promoting quality of life for patients with a life-threatening disease. And it may be offered at the same time as life-prolonging chemotherapy or radiation. Our goal is to ensure that the patient suffers as little as possible and reaches the end of their life with as much dignity as possible.
Palliative care is life-enhancing, supportive care. It is a comprehensive care that addresses the physical, psychosocial, practical and spiritual dimensions of a chronic illness. Palliative care can provide effective pain management to patients who have years to live. Patients have the most to gain from palliative care when it is started earlier in the treatment process. Palliative care is patient and family-centered care that focuses on reducing the severity of symptoms and promoting quality of life for patients with a life-threatening disease. And it may be offered at the same time as life-prolonging chemotherapy or radiation. Our goal is to ensure that the patient suffers as little as possible and reaches the end of their life with as much dignity as possible.
Illnesses Palliative Care Treats:
- ALS
- Breast Cancer
- Cancer
- Colon Cancer
- Dementia
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Huntington’s Disease
- Leukemia and Lymphoma
- Lung Cancer
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Eosinophil Associated Disease (EAD)
- HIV/AIDS
- Kidney Disease
- Liver disease
- Multiple Myeloma
- Ovarian Cancer
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Stroke
Home Health vs Hospice vs Palliative Care
- Home health services help you get better from an illness or injury, regain your independence, and become as self-sufficient as possible.
- Palliative care is a form of home health care in which patients face chronic or quality of life-limiting illnesses, and focuses on the relief of symptoms, pain and stress. Patients may receive curative treatments.
- Hospice is for patients with a limited life expectancy, who are no longer receiving curative treatments for any terminal illness.
Accepted Insurances
Palliative care is new to the insurance market and there for is always changing please call our offices so that we may have check your insurance to see if it is covered currently most insurance have some form of coverage.