Palliative care is a specialised form of care for a person with a terminal illness.
Coping with a terminal illness is a struggle for everyone involved. Those living with a terminal illness and their loved ones need specialist support and care to help them through. From practical support with pain management to offering a shoulder to cry on, palliative care is critical.
Compassionate palliative care can make the most difficult days that little bit easier. It allows a patient and their loved ones to make the most of what time they have left. It can also provide much-needed companionship to lonely individuals in their last days. Palliative care is provided by hospitals, care homes, and hospices. Many of the establishments’ Integrity Home Care Services work with are adept at providing specialist palliative care. Highly-trained, compassionate carers can offer whatever support is needed.
End of life care is similar to palliative care. It also focuses on a patient’s comfort and wellbeing toward the end of their life. Many of our own specially selected staff are experienced in providing end of life care. Our end of life care is focused on allowing a client to live as well as possible in the time they have left.
Palliative care is a specialised form of care for a person with a terminal illness. As the illness cannot be cured, palliative care’s focus is on making a patient as comfortable as possible during their final days.
Things like pain management and the alleviation of distressing symptoms are paramount.
It’s not only practical management of an illness that palliative care is concerned with. It also encompasses emotional, psychological and spiritual support. That’s both for the patient and for their relatives and loved ones.
Palliative care is closely associated with the end of life care. It is not, however, only provided toward the end of a patient’s illness. It can also be offered in the earlier stages, alongside other therapies to treat their condition. There are lots of different elements to palliative care:
Palliative care is a highly specialised form of care. It requires skilled, compassionate staff with extensive experience. There are three main types of palliative care. They are best categorised according to where they are provided.
The most common type of palliative care is provided in a hospital. This is generally delivered over a short period and often follows a specific incident that has caused a terminally ill patient to be unexpectedly admitted. Specialist healthcare professionals will monitor symptoms and deliver the required care.
Hospital palliative care is often only provided in extreme circumstances. Once a patient’s most significant symptoms are alleviated, they will likely be discharged. If they cannot return home, they’ll be transferred to one of the establishments mentioned below.
Many residential care homes can provide palliative care. If they have specialised staff, they can help a resident to manage their illness on a 24/7 basis. Not all care homes have the capability to provide palliative care. Those who do, may also only be able to provide it in the earlier stages of an illness.
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