Your Comfort is Our Focus
Often, we think of palliative care as being directly equal to hospice care. And while hospice care does utilize palliative care, it is a specific type, aimed at relieving pain associated with the end of life. Palliative care, plainly put, … [Read more...]
Palliative care is designed to provide relief from chronic pain. It is closely related to hospice care, except that it doesn't apply only to terminally ill patients. Palliative care is not focused on curing the patient, but rather helping … [Read more...]
Former First Lady Barbara Bush recently decided with her family that further treatment would be avoided, and instead she would be receiving end of life care. Shortly after this decision was made, she passed away. Regardless of your … [Read more...]
It’s true that opioids can can cause health issues far more severe than what they were originally meant to treat. This has received a lot of attention in the news lately, and for good reason. Opioid misuse can cause premature death and can … [Read more...]
Alternative and complementary medical treatments have gained a lot of media time over the last few years. This type of help isn’t always looked nicely upon, but the fact is that these have become very popular because they fulfill a need … [Read more...]
When you first set up care for an elderly loved one, the care service that you chose probably asked you a lot of questions. One of these questions probably had to do with goals of some sort. Even if you were not asked this directly, a care … [Read more...]
Yesterday, we talked a bit about statistics, and how they rarely provide any sort of personalized guidance when it comes to deciding what is the best course of action for a loved one’s senior care. Today, we’re going to look at a more … [Read more...]
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine published a study not too long ago that stresses the importance of palliative care. In this study, the authors claimed that palliative care does a good deal toward helping to improve the … [Read more...]
Palliative care serves a very specific purpose: it is meant to provide comfort. Usually, palliative care is provided in a hospice setting, where the comfort is given as a type of end of life care. Because of this association, many people … [Read more...]
End-of-life issues loom large as Baby Boomers reach the break-over point with their own parents and other elderly family members in their care. The decisions that must be made in this age of advanced medical care weigh heavy because our … [Read more...]
Senior care isn't just nursing homes and caregivers. Sometimes, it can also be little things like a neighbor checking up on an elderly person that lives nearby. At other times, senior care is about preparing for end of life. Hospice care … [Read more...]
Medicare’s new rules may hopefully have some properties that will help to improve elder care benefits. The intended benefits are to help those that are seriously ill and to better care at the end of life. These are both categories that … [Read more...]
