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Palliative Care

Learn about the compassionate approach of palliative care that improves the quality of life for patients with life-threatening illnesses and supports their families. Discover the available community and inpatient services in the Sunbury area.

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Palliative Care

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  1. Palliative Care By Dora Mansbridge

  2. What is Palliative Care Palliative Care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual (WHO 2003)

  3. Palliative care • Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process • Neither hastens or postpones death • Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms • Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of care

  4. Palliative Care • Offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death • Offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient’s illness and their own bereavement

  5. Reasons to refer to Palliative Care • Patient experiencing or has the potential to experience uncontrolled symptoms related to their disease e.g Pain, nausea etc. • Patient needing Palliative care support within the community • Patient needing In Patient Palliative Care

  6. Where Palliative Care is given • In the patients own home, with support from community Palliative care, eg: Mercy Palliative Care, Melbourne City Mission • Hospice, or In patient Palliative care unit eg: Sunshine, Broadmeadows, Caratis Christi, Werribee • As an inpatient in hospital on an acute ward

  7. Community services for Sunbury area • Melbourne City Mission Palliative Care • 472 Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy Vic 3068 • Phone: 03 9486 2666 Fax: 03 9482 5094 

  8. Common reasons for admission to a hospital setting for Palliative patients are • Symptom control • End of life care • Inability to cope at home

  9. Inpatient (hospital) services for patients from Sunbury area • Sunshine Hospital - Palliative Care Unit • 176 Furlong road, St Albans, Vic 3021 • Phone: 03 8345 1333

  10. Palliative Care Victoria Website

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