(585) 872-1800
(585) 872-1800
Palliative Care is specialized medical care for people with serious terminal illness. This type of care focuses on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the resident and the family.
While hospice is a well-known term, palliative care is less familiar to many. Both focus on managing pain and symptoms while offering emotional support. A key difference is that hospice is primarily end of life care delivered by a hospice organization, while palliative care can be end of life care but it can begin at any stage of an illness and is provided by a team of medical professionals and support staff.
In a nursing home, a palliative care model like the one used at Maplewood, allows the facility to oversee all care and quickly adjust care plans as needed, without needing to bring in an unrelated outside hospice organization. The Maplewood already has the trained medical staff and other support experts to handle everything, so your loved one can continue to receive care with the same team they have come to know and trust.
Every patient’s needs are unique. With Maplewood’s palliative care approach, personalized care plans are created on a case-by-case basis. As an illness progresses, our team can quickly adjust the care plan to address changing needs. Managing everything within one organization ensures streamlined communication and efficient delivery of care.
A partnership collaboration with the resident, family, support and care staff, and medical providers at The Maplewood.
The palliative care approach will identify sources of pain and discomfort. These may include problems with nausea, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, restlessness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, insomnia and pain. The approach includes providing treatments that can offer relief.
The palliative care approach puts great importance on communication between the resident, family, clinical staff and medical providers in order to ensure that the needs of the patient and family are fully met. These needs often include establishing goals of care, help with decision making and coordination of care.
The palliative care approach focuses on the entire person and addresses social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs.
The palliative care approach provides emotional support for family members by encouraging open discussion and expression of emotional, spiritual and cultural needs. Additional support may also include collaborating with and utilizing community resources.
The Maplewood Palliative Care approach seeks to maximize quality of life for the resident. Care plans focus on attention to symptom management, emotional and spiritual well-being and commitment to education while also providing ongoing support for the extended family.
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Webster, NY 14580
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