LifeCare
Advanced Illness Management
Relieve suffering and improve quality of life
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with serious illness. It focuses on providing relief from the symptoms and stresses of a serious illness. The goal is to improve the quality of life for patients and families.
When pain, trouble breathing, anxiety or other bothersome symptoms of an illness reduce comfort and quality of life for you or a loved one, LifeCare can ease suffering and improve quality of life for both the patient and caregiver.
Can LifeCare help me?
You or a loved one may want palliative care if a serious illness brings difficult symptoms, such as:
Uncontrolled pain
Nausea
Lymphedema
Anxiety
Shortness of breath
Depression
Weakness
Fatigue
Loss of appetite
Delirium
Constipation
Difficulty sleeping
LifeCare is Available in our Clinic.
We're available via TeleHealth. And we have a unique LifeCare clinic designed specifically for patients like you at the Hospice of Washington County offices at 1710 Underpass Way, Suite 300, Hagerstown, MD 21740.
Is Palliative Care Right for You?
Experts in serious illness care have proven that adding palliative care to your care can prevent or reduce hospital admissions and trips to the emergency room while better managing your pain and other debilitating symptoms. Take our online quiz at getpalliativecare.org/rightforyou to see if you would benefit from adding LifeCare to your care and treatment.
What is LifeCare?
LifeCare: Advanced Illness Management provides specialized expert medical care from a team of physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, and chaplains to support your physical, emotional and spiritual needs during serious illness.
Palliative care works alongside but does not replace your ongoing treatments and physicians. Ask your physician about adding LifeCare: Advanced Illness Management to your care.
It also helps you gain the strength to carry on with daily life. It improves your ability to tolerate medical treatments. And it helps you have more control over your care by improving your understanding of your choices for treatment.
LifeCare also helps family caregivers and provides practical support by exploring options for treatment and help in understanding the illness, and assists in making decisions of care.
