What Is Palliative Care?
Palliative care in interdisciplinary health care specializing in relief of suffering and achievement of the best possible quality of life for patients with advanced illness, and their families.
It is offered simultaneously with all other appropriate medical treatment. Palliative care is designed to help support treatments that patients are already receiving for their illness.
To learn more about the benefits of palliative care, visit the National Hospice and Palliative Care website.
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What Types of Services Does the Palliative Care Program Provide?
MPTF's Palliative Care program provides vigorous treatment of pain, symptoms, and stress of serious illness for patients so they can maintain the best quality of life
throughout their illness by focusing on their daily activities and managing side effects from any other treatments they may be receiving.
Your Palliative Care Team includes a geriatrician, a family physician board certified in hospice and palliative medicine, nurse practitioners, nurses, licensed clinical
social workers, chaplains and rabbis, dieticians, and activities coordinators.
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What Type of Patient Benefits From Palliative Care?
Any patient with advanced illness can benefit from the many aspects of palliative care, from the point of diagnosis. Palliative care is best
introduced early in the course of treatment but can help patients at all stages of serious illness.
- Seriously ill and/dying patients with difficult to manage symptoms.
- Patients and families struggling with decision making about complex medical issues.
- Patients and families whose goals of care appear conflicting or confused.
- Patients in need of coordination of care through the course of serious illness.
- Patients with repeated hospital admissions for their chronic illness, such as heart failure or chronic lung disease.
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