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“Palliative care is comfort care. We provide care
for patients facing life-threatening diseases yet receiving curative
treatments. It includes pain and symptom management, and support to help
achieve the best possible quality of life for patients and their families."
Who is Palliative care for? Persons
who:
- have a life-threatening
illness, such as:
- Cancer
- Neurological (stroke,
Parkinson’s disease, dementia, ALS)
- Cardiac/heart
- Lung disease
- Renal failure
- Liver disease
- Diabetes
- Failure to thrive
- may be seeking curative
treatment
- require specialized skills
of a nurse or therapist (physical or speech)
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