PALLIATIVE CARE

Palliative care patients and their families require sensitive care throughout all stages of a life limiting illnesses. Our team can provide a targeted, integrated, and multidisciplinary approach designed to improve the quality of life of patients and families dealing with these illnesses. It aims to help alleviate the suffering and assist with some of the difficult decision making for patients with advanced illnesses, by early identification, assessment and treatment of pain and other symptoms.

Scope of Service

• Extensive (up to 24) nursing care hours
• Intermittent (short visits) nurse and other clinician visits
• Multidisciplinary assessment and care planning to manage pain or other symptom of the illness
• Provide needed medical equipment to aid care at home (depends on patients disease) for example oxygen, suction and nebulizers.
• Nutritional assessment and support

Patients who will benefits from this program include those with

• Cancer
• Severe heart failure, cardiomyopathies and advanced cardiac disease
• Advanced lung disease, end stage pulmonary fibrosis, advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
• Advanced neurological disorders like motor neuron disease, advanced Parkinson’s disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), and Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• End stage kidney or liver disease