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Palliative Care Is it for me?

Palliative Care- What is it? Specialized care for people with serious medical illness. Palliative care helps treat symptoms and provide extra support to handle the stress of a serious illness for you and your loved ones. You can get palliative care and curative treatment at the same time. The goal of palliative care is to help you have the best quality of life possible.

How do I know if Palliative Care is right for me? • If you have pain, stress, or other symptoms from a serious illness, palliative care may be right for you. • Some serious illnesses include: Cancer Heart disease Lung disease Stroke Alzheimer's disease Parkinson's disease Multiple sclerosis Kidney disease Many others

What can I expect from Palliative Care? • Relief of symptoms like • • Pain Shortness of breath Loss of appetite Vomiting Constipation Fatigue Sleeplessness • Palliative care looks at all aspects of a person, not just physical

Palliative Care looks at all the aspects of a person. . . Physical Financial Spiritual Emotional Social

Whole Person Physical: understanding disease, symptoms, medication, function Emotional: mood, coping mechanisms, support, hope Spiritual: source of strength and meaning, religion, meaning Social: relationships, hobbies Financial: resources, finances, transportation

Who provides palliative care? I don't want to leave my doctor! • A specially trained team of • The palliative care team works experts in symptom as a partner with you and management including doctors, your doctor to provide extra advanced practitioners like support. The palliative care nurse practitioners (NPs) and teams provides symptoms physician assistants (PAs), management, additional nurses, and other specialists and communication, and time to team members like social discuss goals and treatment workers and counselors make options, and help navigating the up the palliative care team. healthcare system.

Nuts and Bolts • Who pays for palliative care? • Most insurances, including Medicare and Medicaid, cover palliative care. • Where can I get palliative care? • You can get palliative care while hospitalized, in a clinic, or at home. • How do I get palliative care? • Just ask your doctor!

Lafayette County Palliative Care Providers and Resources Agencies that provide In-Home Palliative Care • Agrace Pallia. Health • Hospice of Dubuque • The Monroe Clinic Hospice

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