Palliative medicine is designed to improve the quality of life for those suffering from a severe illness while supporting their caregivers. Our providers at the Compassionate Specialty Clinic in Greenbelt, MD, empower their patients with individualized goals and treatment plans.
Who Benefits From Palliative Care?
Palliative care can benefit individuals of any age and stage of serious illness. It may even complement curative or life-prolonging treatments. Care teams also work closely with family members and caregivers, offering education on coping with an ailing loved one while offering resources for planning.
Studies demonstrate that people who receive palliative care earlier than anticipated tend to enjoy an improved quality of life and survival outcomes. Early treatment also helps decrease depression and other mental health concerns.
The Compassionate Specialty Clinic Aims to Improve Quality of Life
Palliative medicine strives to enhance the quality of life for patients and their families by treating pain, symptoms, stress, and anxiety as well as any physical and emotional concerns that may be present.
This branch of medicine takes an interdisciplinary approach across hospitals, clinics, and home health settings and utilizes team-based care.
Early Palliative Intervention: A Gateway to Improved Well-being!
Research shows that early palliative care leads to better outcomes. Be proactive in shaping your well-being by accessing palliative care at Compassionate Specialty Clinic. Learn how our team can support you and your family - schedule your consultation today.
Relieves Suffering From Symptoms and Stress
Palliative care can provide relief at every stage of a serious illness, from relieving pain to helping families cope with an overwhelming situation and maximizing treatment designed to restore wellness.
While this type of care encompasses various subsets, such as hospice, it is unlike hospice. For instance, palliative care can be administered at any point during a severe illness and doesn't depend on its end date for diagnosis and treatment.
It Helps You Match Treatment Options to Your Goals
Our palliative care teams dedicate time and energy to each patient, listening carefully to their goals and explaining all available treatments so that patients and their loved ones can select those which best meet their preferences.
If you are living with a serious illness, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out how best to manage the symptoms you are experiencing and their effect on your quality of life. In fact, providing palliative care alongside curative treatment can benefit the patient mentally and physically.
Our Doctors Work With Your Other Providers
Serious illness has a profoundly disruptive effect on one's life - physical, emotional, and spiritual alike. It can bring physical discomforts such as pain and fatigue; emotional issues like anxiety; nausea; shortness of breath and depression.
Working closely with other providers, our specialists help patients manage symptoms and stress effectively while increasing the quality of life and providing family support.
Want To Know More?
Call the Compassionate Specialty Clinic at (301) 902-0664 to learn how palliative medicine in Greenbelt, MD, can help you or a loved one.
