Palliative Care
Hospice palliative care offers services to help relieve suffering and improve quality of life for people with a life-limiting illness or those grieving a loved one. Hospice palliative care becomes appropriate when treatment no longer supports quality of life.
At home
Palliative care can be provided in people's homes through Home Health care offering professional nursing care and other care services. To help people remain at home, access to a variety of home support services (including personal care, after-hours telephone support and some supplies and equipment) is offered as needed or appropriate. Specialized palliative care consult teams and volunteers are available for expert advice, consultation and support to you and your family, as well as to health care providers.
In hospital
Short-stay beds are available on medical units in all Fraser Health hospitals for people with palliative diagnoses needing tests and treatment. Specialized palliative care consult teams provide expert advice, consultation and support about palliative care to staff, individuals and families.
Palliative complex care units
Palliative complex care units aim to provide comfort and support to people and families experiencing difficulties managing complex physical symptom management issues, complex psychological/spiritual/social issues, family/caregiver distress, or other extensive or intensive care requirements.
Palliative complex care units are located in Burnaby Hospital, Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Surrey Memorial Hospital.
In long-term care and assisted living facilities
Consultation from specialized palliative care consult teams and local hospice society volunteer support is available to people with palliative diagnoses living in long-term care facilities in Fraser Health.
To receive palliative care services in an assisted living facility, the person must be capable of directing his or her own care or have a spouse with them who is able to make health care and other decisions on their behalf.
In hospice
24 hour palliative care services are provided in hospice in most communities in the Fraser Health Authority.
Palliative care :
Aims to achieve the best quality of life for individuals and their families facing life-limiting or end of life issues
Treatment focus is pain and symptom management
Seeks to address a person's physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs
Does not hasten or delay death
At home
Palliative care can be provided in people's homes through Home Health care offering professional nursing care and other care services. To help people remain at home, access to a variety of home support services (including personal care, after-hours telephone support and some supplies and equipment) is offered as needed or appropriate. Specialized palliative care consult teams and volunteers are available for expert advice, consultation and support to you and your family, as well as to health care providers.
In hospital
Short-stay beds are available on medical units in all Fraser Health hospitals for people with palliative diagnoses needing tests and treatment. Specialized palliative care consult teams provide expert advice, consultation and support about palliative care to staff, individuals and families.
Palliative complex care units
Palliative complex care units aim to provide comfort and support to people and families experiencing difficulties managing complex physical symptom management issues, complex psychological/spiritual/social issues, family/caregiver distress, or other extensive or intensive care requirements.
Palliative complex care units are located in Burnaby Hospital, Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Surrey Memorial Hospital.
In long-term care and assisted living facilities
Consultation from specialized palliative care consult teams and local hospice society volunteer support is available to people with palliative diagnoses living in long-term care facilities in Fraser Health.
To receive palliative care services in an assisted living facility, the person must be capable of directing his or her own care or have a spouse with them who is able to make health care and other decisions on their behalf.
In hospice
24 hour palliative care services are provided in hospice in most communities in the Fraser Health Authority.
Palliative care :
Aims to achieve the best quality of life for individuals and their families facing life-limiting or end of life issues
Treatment focus is pain and symptom management
Seeks to address a person's physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs
Does not hasten or delay death
Details
Disabilities
Other / I don't know
Age
19-99
Eligibility
N/A
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