Benefits of Palliative Care for Cancer Patients
Finding out that a loved one has cancer can be extremely difficult. As your loved one goes through treatment, it can be discouraging saying goodbye to them every time they make their way to the next doctor appointment. But what if they could live comfortably in their own home while still being treated?
At Pallatus Health, we aim to provide comfort and compassionate care to our patients afflicted with life-limiting illnesses. Patient-centered palliative care represents an important tool to improve the quality of life among cancer patients.
Here are a Few Benefits of Palliative Care for Cancer Patients:
Improved symptom and medication management
Palliative care helps provide relief from pain and symptoms the patient may be experiencing. Cancer and its treatment can cause several complications, including pain, fatigue, nausea, trouble eating, persistent muscle or joint pain, and more.
With palliative care, these symptoms are addressed to ensure optimal comfort and high quality of life during treatment.
Provides therapy treatment
Along with improving symptoms and medication management, palliative care with Pallatus Health offers various therapies to improve the patient’s quality of life. Therapies offered with palliative care include:
- Physical therapy: Physical therapy helps our patients recover from an illness, helps restore function, reduces pain and improves quality of life.
- Occupational therapy: Occupational therapy improves the patient’s ability to perform daily activities.
- Speech therapy: Speech therapy helps patients with speech disorders regain their freedom to communicate effectively at their own pace.
- Therapeutic touch: Therapeutic touch is a therapy that promotes healing by restoring harmony to a person’s energy fields. It helps patients relax, relieve their pain and heal faster.
- Massage therapy: Massage therapy promotes feelings of relaxation. It has been a long-followed solution for dealing with stress, pain, aches, soreness, anxiety and more.
Prevents hospitalization
The palliative care team at Pallatus Health helps manage the patient’s illness, reducing severe symptoms that may lead to hospitalizations. Rather than going to the hospital when immediate care is required, patients can rely on their palliative care team, which ultimately reduces expenses and unnecessary stress.
Improves quality of life
Palliative care has been effective in improving quality of life for patients with life-limiting illnesses, including cancer. Patients can always rely on their palliative care team to ease their symptoms, helping them feel better and live better in the comfort of their own home.
Contact Pallatus Health for Palliative Care
If you or a loved one afflicted with cancer are interested in learning more about the compassionate palliative care that we provide, contact Pallatus Health today.
