Home Care: Palliative Care
Palliative care is a form of specialized medical care for people with serious illness, with the focus on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness.
The following strategies may include in the care plan:
- Care coordination and communication with relatives and friends as nominated
- Wound care for pressure sores or surgical wounds
- Consumer and family education
- Intravenous or nutrition therapy
- Injections
- Monitoring of serious illness and unstable health status
- Physical rehabilitation
- Speech therapy
- Dietary assistance
- Monitoring of blood pressure, temperature, heart rate and breathing
- Supervising of prescription and other drugs
- Pain management
- Safety management in the home
- Education about self-care