Skilled Hospice Care Savannah GA

For those who require an additional oversight for pain management, management for respiratory, cardiac, kidney or liver disease, palliative or hospice care is a treatment we can assist them with. It aims to ensure a person needing care can have a good quality of life and remain as independent and active as possible. An approach to palliative care also includes support for the person’s family and friends. A life-limiting illness is an illness that cannot be cured and one that you are likely to pass away from. Complex conditions that are life-limiting include advanced cancer, dementia and motor neurone disease.

Care includes managing physical symptoms such as pain, providing personal care which may have become difficult for the person to do themselves, offering emotional, spiritual and psychological support.

To require palliative care a person must be diagnosed with a life-limiting illness or condition, but that does not mean that they will pass away soon. Some people receive palliative care for months or years while others may even go on to make a full recovery. The duration of palliative care is always based on the individual and their needs and preferences. Palliative care can also include care provided to someone at the end of their life, which is called end-of-life care.