The purpose of our palliative care service is to provide an extra layer of support with expertise in completing advanced directives, symptom management, and value-driven goal-based conversations ensures that you receive the medical treatments that you want, no more and no less. Your provider can prescribe any medications needed to help yo
The purpose of our palliative care service is to provide an extra layer of support with expertise in completing advanced directives, symptom management, and value-driven goal-based conversations ensures that you receive the medical treatments that you want, no more and no less. Your provider can prescribe any medications needed to help you achieve utmost comfort while you work with your other specialists to complete treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, and disease management
When you enroll in our palliative care service, you have access to an entire team of qualified professionals, including a patient navigator and licensed social worker, in addition to access to a healthcare professional 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If at any time, you achieve remission of your symptoms or disease, your team is availa
When you enroll in our palliative care service, you have access to an entire team of qualified professionals, including a patient navigator and licensed social worker, in addition to access to a healthcare professional 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If at any time, you achieve remission of your symptoms or disease, your team is available to follow you as part of your primary care team. And if, at any time, you choose to stop curative treatment and elect comfort care only, your team will remain the same.
Your team is here to ensure collaborative communication between each of your healthcare providers, to interpret and summarize information from your specialists in language you can understand and to follow you through all seasons of health. With All Seasons Health, you never have to switch team members or providers if you decide to change your course of treatment.
Palliative care, a board-certified medical specialty since 2006 in the US, has been around for centuries. Most people have experienced palliative medicine, which focuses on comfort care, symptom management and pain relief.
If you break a bone, the doctor treats it by immobilizing it with a cast and prescribing painkillers to make you comfortable. The cast is curative, while the medications are palliative: they improve the quality of your life while you and your physician address the broken bone.
To palliate is “to make a disease or its symptoms less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause.”
Generally, palliative care is provided within the context of serious illness: chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders; renal disease; chronic heart failure; HIV/AIDS; progressive neurological conditions; cancer, etc. It supports a patient’s physical, emotional and psychosocial needs, providing comfort and improving quality of life.
An example: An oncologist who prescribes chemotherapy to treat cancer will also address nausea, depression and anxiety by prescribing an anti-anxiety drug, recommending a therapist or arranging for pet visits. A social worker or chaplain will provide family support, as well. All of these coping mechanisms are considered palliative: they improve the quality of a patient's life while the patient and physician address the cancer.
If you would like to discuss more about Palliative care and how it may help support your loved one, please reach out to get in direct contact with our provider.
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