There are so many different types of care available for people at various stages of managing their health issues. One type of care, palliative care, is often misunderstood because many people don’t know what palliative treatments are or what they can do. Getting as much information as possible about palliative therapies can help you and your family member to decide what treatments are the right ones for her needs.
What Is Palliative Care Exactly?
Sometimes it’s difficult to understand what exactly palliative care is. It’s often lumped in with hospice care, but it’s a different type of care altogether. Also, unlike hospice therapies, your family member doesn’t need to be near the end of life to take advantage of these therapies. Palliative treatments involve improving quality of life as much as possible and improving symptom management for people who have chronic health issues, such as respiratory diseases, heart disease, and other chronic conditions.
This Is Care in Addition to Other Types of Care
Palliative treatments don’t take the place of your family member’s primary care physician and any treatments already in place to manage her health. These treatments are an addition that works in conjunction with primary care therapies. Ideally, palliative therapies offer improvements to your family member’s daily life.
Palliative Therapies Occur as Often as Needed
Palliative therapies focus on your family member and her life and her needs. That means that if massages help with pain relief, she might be able to include them as part of her care plan on a regular basis. These therapies and treatments are about alleviating and managing symptoms in a way that helps your family member as much as possible.
Palliative Caregivers Come to Your Family Member
Palliative care isn’t something that your family member has to go to, either, although some services might require that she does go somewhere to meet with a practitioner. These are typically treatments and caregivers that can come to your family member if necessary. That helps her to have the flexibility that she needs in order to manage her health most effectively.
Managing chronic health issues is never an easy task. For your family member, that might mean asking about palliative treatments and how to include those as a part of her overall care plan. Adding palliative treatments should make life easier for her and help her to feel more in control of her own health, even as it continues to change over time.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering palliative care in Denton TX, please contact the caring staff at Arcy Healthcare today. 469-293-1515
My name is Jimmie Stapleton. I am the founder and CEO of Arcy Healthcare. Arcy Healthcare includes Arcy Hospice, Arcy Supportive Care, MaximaCare Home Health and Arcy at Home.
Arcy Hospice was opened in 2007 to provide care and support for individuals and families facing a life limiting illness. It was established after my wife Ellen, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, had completed her chemo and radiation therapies. At that time, things were looking positive, and we wanted to do something for our community that had been so supportive of our family during her treatments. Unfortunately, the cancer returned a few years later, and she subsequently passed away under our care in 2010.
In the years that followed, I began to see the need to provide the same level of excellent care to patients across the continuum of care. Therefore, we have added a home health division (MaximaCare Home Health), a palliative care division (Arcy Supportive Care), and a home care division, (Arcy at Home). With the addition of these divisions, we can meet most of the post-acute care needs for you and your family in your home.
I started Arcy Hospice with my wife as my motivation to provide exceptional care and support in the patient’s home, where they are surrounded by family and where they feel most comfortable. I’m proud to say that our staff provides some of the best in home care in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Please let us know if we can enrich the quality of life for you or a loved one.
Sincerely,
Jimmie Stapleton – Founder and CEO
Arcy Healthcare
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