A helping hand for patients and caregivers
Palliative care helps patients, their families and caregivers navigate what may feel like a complicated web of doctor’s appointments, symptoms, emotions and treatments.
Did you know?
Palliative care can help ensure that life remains meaningful and fulfilling despite living with a serious illness.
Palliative care specialists assist individuals and their families in identifying their most crucial values, priorities, and objectives for care. They help the person and their family to step back from a mentally difficult and emotionally draining medical situation to look at the big picture.
You are more than your illness
The palliative care team learns what a patient is like as a person, not just as a medical diagnosis, to get a sense of the person's values.
This may involve gathering information about: