These teams complete comprehensive palliative and end of life care assessments and provide recommendations to primary care providers for complex symptom management. The teams also complete assessments for Type C Care Home admissions. A referral from your doctor or nurse practitioner is needed when they want support with palliative care services.
PEOLC is both a philosophy and an approach to care that enables all individuals with a life-limiting and/or life-threatening illness to receive integrated and coordinated care across the continuum. This care incorporates patient and family values, preferences and goals of care, and spans the disease process from early diagnosis to end of life, including bereavement. Palliative and End-of-Life Care Alberta Provincial Framework (2014)
Our Services Include:
- providing consultative services for patients with a life-limiting illness
- collaborating closely with doctors, nurse practitioners, Home Care staff and hospital teams
- supporting patients with a life-limiting illness, and their families, with their physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs
- assessing the needs and supporting the planning for care options including palliative Home Care, Tertiary Palliative Care Unit or Type C Care Homes (previously known as hospice care).