There are special services available from medical professionals during this time of your life. These services can also be helpful, under certain circumstances, while waiting for completion of a medical treatment such as a transplant or chemotherapy. One example of when these services might be employed is for cirrhosis patients that may have completed their workup for transplant, who still have some severe complications (like Hepatic Encephalopathy [HE] in patients with liver problems) and whose caregivers cannot always be present.
There are two types of care available for this time in your life. One is called "hospice" care and the other is called "palliative"care. There are some subtle differences between these two types of care but both focus on keeping extremely ill patients comfortable, while helping patients, family members, and caregivers be comfortable and cope with the entire process. From the start of a serious or terminal illness, practitioners try to reduce the burden on family caregivers by identifying and providing for patient and family needs, whether physical, emotional, practical or spiritual. You have probably heard of hospice care before and may have general knowledge of the services it provides. What is confusing about the difference between hospice and palliative care is that hospice provides "palliative care," and that palliative care is both a method of administering "comfort" care and increasingly, an administered system of palliative care offered most prevalently by hospitals. Source Link: http://gailssite.weebly.com/palliative--hospice-care.html
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