In-Home Palliative Care

In home palliative care is a specialized form of medicine designed to help people manage the symptoms of serious illness. It provides relief from pain, reduction in troublesome symptoms, and improves the quality of life for both a patient and their families and can be provided alongside any number of other treatment options.

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative care is a unique medical subspecialty that focuses on symptom relief from serious illnesses, regardless of your prognosis. It can help people living with illnesses such as:

• Cancer
• Heart disease
• Kidney disease
• Lung disease
• Dementia
• Liver disease
• Bone marrow disorders
• Stroke

Often, palliative care is confused with hospice care. While they have much in common, hospice care is specific treatment for people approaching the end of their lives – and implies that the focus of medicine shifts from curative treatments to managing symptoms.

Palliative care is intended to be used at any point in the course of serious illness. It can be used in addition to curative treatments and can provide substantial relief to people who experience painful or disruptive symptoms, either as a symptom of their illness or a side effect of treatment. Several studies have shown that incorporating palliative care can lead to increased quality of life and mood, and even disease survival.

Too often, people with serious illness receive medical care that is so singularly focused on fixing the problem, that their symptoms and side effects get brushed to the side. A cancer patient’s doctor may want them to increase chemotherapy, regardless of the pain and discomfort that it causes. A person awaiting a bone marrow transplant may have to suffer significant side effects until a donor is found.

This single-minded focus can leave many patients distraught, searching for medical care that can simply help them feel better. This is exactly what palliative care services aim to accomplish and can make a dramatic difference in your quality of life despite serious illness.

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In-Home Palliative Care Services

Palliative home care services include both medical and behavioral interventions. No two patients seeking palliative care have the same set of needs, and the team at Kinkaid Private Care tailors our treatment approach to each individual patient.

Services offered with in home palliative care may include:

• Prescribing and administering medications
• Behavioral health treatments and therapies
• Help with the activities of daily living
• Nursing case management services
• Education about your illness, symptoms, and treatment progress

If you’re already receiving curative treatment from an outside provider, our team can help communicate your treatment progress and symptomology to them as well, providing your overall care team a better opportunity to help you heal.

Why Choose Kinkaid?

Kinkaid Private Care offers premium in-home services to select clients who want the most convenient and effective healthcare on the market. We believe that there is a significant gap between the hospital and the home – and that by bringing effective healthcare solutions to where people live, we can enhance the quality of their lives and accelerate the healing process.

As hospitals continue to become overwhelmed by growing demands and staff shortages, in-home care options can help people to get the vital healthcare they need, customized to their exact preferences. We only take on a few clients at a time, allowing our team to provide truly individualized care, build meaningful relationships with our clients and their families, and ensure that you get effective and efficient treatment.

When you’re ready to start care, call our team by dialing (866) 337-4596. Our team of skilled nurses can answer any questions you have about palliative care and can start you or your loved one on the path to comfort and healing today.

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