This service provides palliative care consultative support for adult patients, families, and healthcare teams to help manage complex palliative symptoms related to the patient’s life-threatening disease.
Palliative Care Consult services include:
- assessment and management of the patient’s symptoms (e.g., pain, delirium, nausea, anxiety, dyspnea, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual distress) with the primary care team
- education for patients and families about how the disease will progress and care needed at the end of life
- suggestions for receiving the best possible end-of-life care and support for families faced with the loss of a loved one
- help with thinking about, talking about and documenting wishes for health care in the event the patient becomes incapable of consenting to or refusing treatment or other care
- help with determining the medical order used to describe and communicate the general aim or focus of care including the preferred location of care
- help with exploring care options after leaving the hospital, receiving palliative care focused services, which may include moving to a different care setting (e.g., a hospice)
- information and advice for healthcare providers about palliative care
If you require ongoing palliative focused Home Care support contact Community Care Access.