As cancer progresses, it can become increasingly difficult for cancer patients to endure their pain and physical symptoms. Hospice care provides cancer patients with a safe and comfortable environment in which they can live the rest of their lives. Hospice does not aim to cure cancer; instead, hospice is focused on providing comfort for cancer patients who are in a transitional phase of life. 

Let’s explore what hospice care is and how hospice helps cancer patients live full and dignified lives.

Hospice Keeps Cancer Patients Comfortable

Hospice cares for cancer patients by addressing their physical, mental, and spiritual needs. Pallatus’ hospice staff works to comfort cancer-stricken patients physically by providing them with pain management medications such as morphine or oxycodone. They also provide emotional support to help cancer sufferers cope with the stress caused by this terrible illness. Finally, hospice helps cancer patients spiritually through its focus on caring for the patient’s soul instead of just treating the body’s symptoms at hand.

Caring and compassionate, the hospice care team at Pallatus treats cancer patients with the dignity every living soul deserves. Pallatus’ staff helps cancer patients find peace in this new phase of life by addressing their physical, mental, and spiritual needs.

Here are some different ways that cancer patients receive comfort:

• We help cancer sufferers cope with their emotional side by providing counseling services like those offered by a psychologist or therapist
• We help cancer sufferers’ physical needs by helping them manage their pain through medications such as morphine
• We provide spiritual counseling to satisfy the patient’s desire to maintain religious or cultural beliefs

Hospice Provides All Necessary Care in One Place

Hospice care provides cancer sufferers with all necessary care in one place, making access to these services easy and stress-free. People with cancer are often too sick to make it outside of their homes. Therefore, hospice will come to wherever the patient calls home in order to provide care and services that can’t be given from another location.

Hospice Care Provides a Variety of Therapies

Pallatus provides cancer patients with physical and occupational therapy to help them be more independent and comfortable. Hospice does not aim to cure cancer. Instead, we provide a safe and comfortable environment for cancer patients.

Physical Therapy is important because cancer can cause muscle weakness or loss of sensation in the extremities from nerve damage. Occupational Therapy is important because it helps cancer patients relearn skills that have been lost due to surgery or other treatments.

Pallatus’ therapies also include group support sessions where individuals can discuss their fears and concerns about cancer with others who are going through similar experiences. We also offer counseling services offered by a chaplain or social worker if needed.

While these therapies may not be able to remove all the pain from cancer, they will help cancer patients live a more comfortable and fulfilling life.

Hospice Provides Respite Care for Caregivers

Pallatus provides respite care for caregivers. Pallatus is able to provide necessary cancer care while the patient’s family enjoys necessary breaks from the stress of caregiving. We also counseling and support services to cancer patients and their families during this transitional time.

Contact Pallatus Health

You are not alone. Hospice care provides cancer sufferers and their families with everything they need under one roof from pain management to spiritual counseling, so cancer patients can live a fulfilled life.

Pallatus cancer care is focused on meeting the physical and emotional needs of cancer sufferers as well as the needs of their families. Contact Pallatus Health today to get started.