A study confirmed that patients who choose palliative care early during their treatment can enjoy an improved quality of life.
If you or your aging loved ones are living with a serious illness and struggling with pain, stress, depression, anxiety or other symptoms, the palliative care team can help provide relief while improving the quality of life.
Palliative care medicine is a multi-disciplinary specialty where a group of experienced physicians, allied health care professionals, registered nurses and other specialists work together with the patient’s primary doctor to relieve the patient’s suffering and pain. Palliative care experts not only help address physical issues, rather they help the patient deal with emotional, social, psychological and spiritual stressors.
The Benefits of Palliative Care
Palliative care can be started when a patient is diagnosed with a serious illness. There are plenty of benefits of choosing palliative care. Some of them are:
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Improved Quality of Life
The goal of palliative care is to improve the quality of life for a patient who is living with a serious illness. It includes managing symptoms, providing psychosocial support, and establishing goals of care throughout the patient’s curative treatment journey.
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Feel Better
Palliative care help patients connect with activities that love. The palliative care team of experts help a patient cope up with the psychological and spiritual aspect of living with a serious illness.
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Improved Mood
Palliative care aims at managing your overall condition. Palliative care makes it easier for the patient and his family to ease their concerns and cope with the situation. Counseling with mental health therapists makes it easier to look at the bright side and ease mental stress.
A diagnosis of serious illness is never easy for the patient or his loved ones. However, having expert professionals by your side can make things easier.
Palliative care is tailored to suit the patient’s circumstances and align with the patient’s goals. You can choose to receive palliative care in your home up till the very end. At Inspiration Hospice, our approach is to provide the right kind of care at the right time in the right way.
For more information about how palliative care can benefit you or your loved ones, call us on 385-247-2020.
