Palliative Care is an extra layer of support that can help anyone with a serious illness live well. It reduces physical discomfort, improves quality of life, and makes living with a serious illness easier, both for the person and those who help care for them. It is provided by an interdisciplinary team of specially trained healthcare providers wherever a person receives care. Palliative care helps people with serious illness have goal congruent care.
Adult Palliative Care
Adult Palliative Care
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Quality of Life: Care based on what matters most to the patient so that patients and families can continue to participate in what brings them joy.
Patient & Support Person(s): Resources and information for help with caregiving. Clear, understandable communication for decision making.
Symptom Assessment & Treatment: Identify and treat troublesome symptoms of the serious illness. Medication review, simplification and management along with referrals to specialists who help treat symptoms including complementary therapy.
Life-threatening & Life-limiting illness: Life-threatening is an illness which could cause a patient to die. Life-limiting includes illness that may compromise quality of life.
Holistic Approach: Focus is on the social, emotional, cultural, spiritual and physical aspects impacted by serious illness.