Palliative Care Center
An important part of palliative care is talking about your diagnosis, treatment, and needs. These conversations help everyone understand what you want and expect from your treatments and overall care. Palliative care works best when you, your family, and your health care team work together. Palliative care specialists may help people with symptom management and pain management, according to a 2017 review on people living with advanced cancer. Whereas palliative care can begin at any point during cancer treatment, hospice care begins when curative treatment is no longer the goal of care and the sole focus is quality of life. Paying For Hospice Vs Palliative Care The organized services available through palliative care may be helpful to any older person having a lot of general discomfort and disability very late in life. Eskenazi Health’s Inpatient Consultation Service provides comprehensive medical assessment and management, focusing not only on controlling pain but also other symp...