Palliative Care is more than you think.
Palliative Care is active comfort care for someone whose illness or condition cannot be cured. It helps people live as fully and comfortably as possible and improves quality of life, including support to those significant others in their life. We want to care for all in our and your community.
Our Palliative Care Services
Palliative care is about enabling people to have the sort of end-of-life experience that is right for them.
This is achieved by providing resources to both reduce suffering and increase quality of life. Extra medical, nursing, spiritual or psychological services are provided to those who need it. It is also about understanding what that person and their family or carers need and want.
At Infinite Care, we follow these Stages of Palliative Care.
Stage 1 – Palliative Approach to Care
This stage includes advance care planning and living the best possible life. The person can be quite stable and could still be active and independent.
Stage 2 – End of Life Care
This stage includes regular care reviews and case conferences to ensure we are providing the best possible person-centred care. The person is usually deteriorating and needing more help.
Stage 3 – Last Days
Care for the person in their last days and hours of life involving full comfort care and support to significant others. The person is actively dying.
Palliative care is person and family-centred, and the care offered will be dependent on an individual’s needs and circumstances.
It can include:
- Relief of pain and other symptoms e.g. vomiting, shortness of breath
- Food and nutrition advice and support
- Care and education to support better mobility and sleeping
- Equipment needed to increase comfort and quality of life
- Assistance for families to come together to talk about sensitive issues
- Support for people to meet cultural obligations
- Support for emotional, social and spiritual concerns
- Counselling and grief support for the person with the illness and their family and carers
- Bereavement care to the family and carers once the person has died.
- Medication management
- Advance care planning
