Palliative Care
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative Care, sometimes conflated with Hospice Care despite their differences, is specialized medical care for people with serious or terminal illnesses. This type of care can be given at any stage during a serious or terminal illness, and is provided by highly trained doctors, nurses, caregivers, and other medical professionals. It takes a more holistic approach to care – while it doesn’t replace existing treatment, it can still provide medical support and manage or regulate chronic illness symptoms and pains.
WHY CHOOSE Palliative Care?
Palliative Care serves to provide mental or emotional relief; its goal is to increase ill clients’ or patients’ quality of life, providing them and their families comfort. If you have been hurting lately due to your loved one’s afflictions, palliative care might be a good care option. If undertaken at a hospital, palliative care can be quite expensive (around $36,000), but much less so to receive the services at home.
Be careful to let your loved one know that this care option is not a last resort if they are very ill, as this can potentially reduce their hopes for recovery or for leading a normal life. It is simply a matter of providing comfort to them during more difficult times, and assuaging negative feelings, pain, and adverse symptoms.
Additional Palliative Care Resources
What Types of Senior Care Options Are There?
This article goes over 8 types of elder care options in detail, one of which is palliative care. Read on to learn more about palliative care, or find out which other care option is best for you.
5 Ways to Boost Brain Health and Resilience for Seniors
Palliative care doesn’t mean that your illness is life-threatening; it provides comfort and eases symptoms. Here are 5 other creative, easy, senior-safe ways to do exactly that.
5 Tips for Living Happily While Aging
Aging is simultaneously hard and rewarding, and receiving care can sometimes be difficult to swallow. This article covers tips for happy aging to remind you of the beauty of growing old.
A Guide to Palliative Care
Although it isn’t the goal, receiving palliative care can be nerve-wracking for some who view it as a sign of their old age. If you need further clarification on what it is, read our complete guide.