{"id":73883,"date":"2024-02-22T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=73883"},"modified":"2024-02-22T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:15:30","slug":"benefits-of-palliative-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/benefits-of-palliative-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of palliative care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_73887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73887\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-73887\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/01\/31085222\/palliative-caresized.webp\" alt=\"People going through a serious illness can feel completely overwhelmed. They may benefit from palliative care. Photo: iStock.\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People going through a serious or chronic illness can feel completely overwhelmed. Palliative care can help. Photo: iStock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dealing with a serious or chronic illness is, in a word, difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople going through a serious illness can feel completely overwhelmed,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/provider\/heather-hack-np\/\">Heather Hack<\/a>, a board-certified family nurse practitioner providing palliative care services at <a id=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-pain-management-clinic-steamboat-springs\/\">UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center<\/a>. \u201cYou don\u2019t feel well, you\u2019re tired all the time, you\u2019re worried about your family and your future, and all the while, you\u2019re doing your best to navigate medical appointments and treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But palliative care can help. Hack outlines the benefits of palliative care below.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Support throughout a diagnosis<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Palliative care can provide a range of benefits, from decreasing stress and improving quality of life to finding relief from symptoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/services\/palliative-care\/\">Palliative care providers<\/a> communicate with a patient\u2019s care team, helping to coordinate care with primary care providers and specialists, such as oncologists, cardiologists or surgeons.<\/p>\n<p>While hospice care provides comfort for people who are expected to live less than six months, patients can take advantage of palliative care at any stage of a diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalliative care is not just for people who have a life-limiting disease,\u201d Hack said. \u201cIt can help people going through a difficult time during any serious illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patients with diseases such as cancer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/dementia-resources-how-to-communicate-and-connect\/\">dementia<\/a>, Parkinson\u2019s, ALS, chronic lung disease, advanced heart failure, and kidney or liver failure may all benefit from palliative care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter where they are in that illness, we can help them determine their goals for care, make complex decisions, and connect them with services and resources,\u201d Hack said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Help for caregivers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Serious illness doesn\u2019t just affect patients \u2013 it takes a toll on their loved ones, who may find themselves balancing work and family duties, along with a new caregiving role. That stress can lead to a range of emotions, such as frustration, anger and guilt, which can be difficult to cope with.<\/p>\n<p>Palliative care appointments give caregivers a unique chance to ask questions, share challenges and get additional support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can be emotionally challenging for caregivers, so we provide support for them as well,\u201d Hack said. \u201cAs we start talking, you can see them relax. They say, \u2018Oh, you can help with that?\u2019 By the end of the appointment, they see they have someone else on their team.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Space for tough questions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With 90-minute appointments, palliative care providers spend time getting to know a patient and their caregivers and address issues and questions that may not surface in other appointments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe provide space and an opportunity to ask questions about things they may not feel comfortable asking elsewhere,\u201d Hack said. \u201cSometimes patients have questions about what happens if an illness progresses, or what would happen if they stopped treatment. People have asked, \u2018If I die of this, what will I go through?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Setting advance directives<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Patients also have an opportunity to outline advance directives, including which life-sustaining treatments they want to receive and who would make decisions for them if they couldn\u2019t speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a huge difference at the end of life when patients and their loved ones are more prepared,\u201d Hack said. \u201cIf they know what to expect and have had discussions on the front end, they feel much more at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Providing resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>From setting up meal deliveries to helping a patient get a walker or in-home services, palliative care can connect patients with much-needed resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes people don\u2019t know what equipment or services might be of benefit,\u201d Hack said. \u201cWe have experience in supporting people through illness over an extended period of time, so we can anticipate needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ease in getting help<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/services\/video-appointment\/\">Virtual appointments<\/a> for palliative care are available, and appointments can be coordinated with other medical visits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here to reduce the stress of serious illness by relieving symptoms, providing emotional support, navigating medical questions and helping you maximize your quality of life,\u201d Hack said. \u201cWhatever you need, we\u2019re here to help provide it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story first appeared in the Steamboat Pilot.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with a serious or chronic illness is, in a word, difficult. \u201cPeople going through a serious illness can feel completely overwhelmed,\u201d said Heather Hack, a board-certified family nurse practitioner providing palliative care services at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center. \u201cYou don\u2019t feel well, you\u2019re tired all the time, you\u2019re worried about your family and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"featured_media":73887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2877,65,154],"class_list":["post-73883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-living","tag-advance-directive-living-will-planning","tag-pain-care-and-management","tag-palliative-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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