How Can Palliative Care Help You?
Palliative care helps you fully understand your illness and options for medical care. Our Palliative Care team treats you as a whole person, which includes the body, mind, and spirit.
Many adults living with serious illness experience physical, emotional, psychological and social stressors. Our team helps to reduce these stressors through expert symptom management and a process called advance care planning.
Advance care planning helps to clarify your goals, values and preferences for care. These discussions can lead to the completion of advance directive documents such as a living will, appointment of a healthcare representative, or both.
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What can you expect from Your Palliative Care Team?
The Palliative Care intra-disciplinary team partners with you to explore the meaning and impact of the illness on your daily life and offers a unique understanding of how we can best support you. The team will...
- Provide an in-depth conversation regarding your health and plan of care
- Assist you with making complex medical treatment decisions by reviewing and discussing the risks & benefits of available treatments
- Work with you and your provider to manage distressing symptoms (i.e. pain, shortness of breath, anxiety, etc.)
- Collaborate and coordinate with the attending provider and members of your care team
- Support you and your loved ones emotional, cultural and spiritual needs.