The Importance of Palliative Care
Importance of Round-the-Clock Care for Palliative Patients
February 9, 2024
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is specialized medical care that focuses on providing relief from pain and other symptoms of a serious illness. It also can help you cope with side effects from medical treatments. The availability of palliative care does not depend on whether your condition can be cured.
(Source: Mayo Clinic)
At Live Peace 24/7, our team works with you and your family to add an extra layer of support and relief that complements your ongoing care all across Greater Vancouver.
Palliative care can:
- help improve your quality of life
- reduce or relieve your symptoms
- help you make important decisions
- provide grief support to you, your friends and your family (or chosen family)
- support you and your caregivers throughout your illness, from the time of diagnosis
- (Source: Canada.ca)
Who can benefit from Palliative Care?
Palliative care is available to all patients with serious illness regardless of age, prognosis, disease stage, or treatment choice. It is ideally provided early and throughout the illness, together with life-prolonging or curative treatments. In other words, patients don’t have to choose between treatment for their illness and palliative care; they can have both.
Source: (Harvard Health)
Palliative Care with Live Peace 24/7
If you or a loved one is living with a serious illness, Live Peace 24/7 offers palliative care home services all across Greater Vancouver. Contact us for a free consultation today.
Use this discussion and the resulting services as an opportunity to:
- Assess and manage poorly controlled physical, psychological, social, and spiritual stressors.
- Understand your illness, its expected trajectory, and treatment options.
- Explore your hopes, worries, goals, and values; cultural or religious beliefs that impact your care or treatment decisions; treatments you may or may not want; what quality of life means to you.
- Discuss and document your health care proxy and end of life preferences, including medical interventions you do or do not want.
