End of life care at home(palliative care) provided by Carers at Home Godalming

What is Palliative Care?

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Palliative care is a type of treatment, care, and support that helps people with a life-limiting illness live as comfortably and fully as possible. It can be provided at any stage of the illness, including when curative treatments are still being used.

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Carers Home Palliative care team has extensive experience in providing support to those that are in the final stages of their life. This can be either through home care visits or live-in care. The idea behind palliative care is to make the last weeks and months as comfortable and dignified as possible. Carers at Home's aim is to take as much of the stress and strain off friends and families allowing their time together and final memories to be as positive as possible. .

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We will always follow the wishes of the client and work alongside the family to make the time as peaceful as possible.

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Palliative care can last anything from a few weeks up to around one year. The need for care is usually brought on due to illness such as deterioration of dementia, Cancer or other incurable illness.

Some of the service we provide during  palliative care are;

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• Assistance with medication, including pain relief
• Assistance with personal care (see personal care section)
• Shopping
• Cooking meals and assistance with feeding
• Light domestic duties
• Companionship
• Food / hydration monitoring

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To read our top 10 tips on providing end of life care for a loved one why not not our post 10 Essential Tips for Providing Compassionate End of Life Care for a Loved One