Palliative care

What is palliative care?

Palliative care can help you if you’re living with any any life shortening conditions. It supports your family and carers too. Palliative care is for people of all ages.

Helping you live as well as possible is the main aim of palliative care.

Palliative care can be helpful when you find out that you have a new life shortening condition or when your health starts to change.

It can also be important for you when other treatments are working less well or are no longer helpful.

Palliative care when someone is dying helps keep the person comfortable. It includes emotional, practical and spiritual care for the people close to them as well.

How to get palliative care

You can get palliative care from your doctor, nurse, social care worker and other members of your care team. Ask one of them if you would like more information about palliative care and how to get it.

You can have palliative care alongside other treatments and care at home, in your care home and in hospital.

If you need more specialist help, your care team can contact a specialist palliative care service for you.

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