Palliative Care
What is Palliative Care?
Shore Memorial Hospital’s Palliative CARE Program
offers patients with serious illnesses and their families Comfort
with Autonomy, Respect
and Empathy. It is comfort care that provides
patients relief from pain, symptoms and the stress of illness, whatever
the diagnosis.
The goal of palliative care is to help individuals live comfortably
and to provide them with the highest quality of life, while addressing physical
comfort, emotional health and meeting the spiritual needs of patients and
their families.
What Conditions Are Addressed?
Working closely with your physician, Shore Memorial’s Palliative CARE Team supports the whole patient and their loved ones who are sharing the burden of serious illness. The CARE Team provides:
| Management for difficult symptoms | ||
| • Nausea | • Fatigue | |
| • Loss of appetite | • Shortness of breath | |
| Management for pain | ||
| • Chronic pain | ||
| • Pain associated with treatment | ||
| • Pain associated with illness | ||
| Assistance with emotional support | ||
| • Anxiety | • Depression | |
| • Fear | • Adjustment to illness | |
| Assistance with spiritual/religious support | ||
| • Anger, guilt and reconcilistion | ||
| • Loneliness, hopelessness and despair | ||
| • Prayer, religious ritual and sacraments | ||
| • Struggle with the meaning of life | ||
| Assistance with discharge needs | ||
| • Home care | • Rehabilitation | |
| • Long-term care | • Medical equipment needs after discharge |
|
Shore Memorial's Care Team
Palliative CARE Team helps you better understand your condition and your choices for medical care. The team includes your attending physician, nurse, social worker, chaplain, pharmacist, dietician and other specially trained members, along with the CARE physician and advanced practice nurse.
For information about Shore Memorial Hospital’s Palliative CARE Program please call (609) 653-3500 ext. CARE (2273).
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