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Palliative care

What is palliative care?

Palliative care is specialised medical support intended to improve the quality of life for those with serious illnesses like cancer or heart failure.

It addresses targeted relief for symptoms and complements curative treatments, helping to alleviate the stress of the illness for both patient and their family.

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Specialist palliative care, tailored
to your needs

Our specialist palliative care allows your family to make the most of your time together.

Palliative care at home allows you to stay in the place you feel most comfortable, surrounded by memories and the people you love. With one-to-one support from a compassionate carer who has been trained in end-of-life care, you can have specialist support and symptom relief from serious illness, whenever it is needed.

Palliative care can support you with:

Personal care

We can assist with all aspects of personal and continence care, from managing a stoma or a catheter to helping with bathing and dressing

Symptom management

Our palliative carers are trained to help you manage any painful symptoms you may be living with, allowing you to live in comfort

Administering medication

If you’re struggling to stay on top of the housework, this is something your visiting carer can help with – from doing the laundry to vacuuming the stairs

Preparing meals

A palliative carer can cook healthy, balanced meals to ensure you’re getting all the nutrients you need, and prepare your favourite meals and snacks

Valued companionship

Having a friendly, trusted companion can go a long way to supporting your emotional well-being, as well as being a source of comfort and reassurance

Mobility support

Our carers receive full training in providing safe and practical mobility support, helping you to move around your home securely and confidently

The benefits of home care

At Helping Hands, we firmly believe that home is the best place to receive palliative care.

In our 35 years of providing person-centred home care, we’ve found that our customers truly appreciate being able to remain in the home that they love while receiving empathetic palliative care. Staying at home means you can continue enjoying your normal routines, home comforts and familiar sights and sounds.

Here’s how you can benefit from palliative care at home:

Enjoy a familiar environment

Care at home allows you to spend your last months or weeks in the comfortable, familiar surroundings of your own much-loved home

Remain closer to loved ones

Staying at home means you’ll be able to set your own schedules, and spend more time seeing friends and family on your own terms

Receive one-to-one support

You’ll receive personal support from a dedicated, compassionate carer who will be completely familiar with your condition and circumstances

Cared for by specialists

All Helping Hands palliative carers receive palliative care training to deliver exceptional, compassionate support for people with a range of conditions

Personalised symptom relief

You’ll be provided with a palliative care plan that focuses specifically on your condition – whether that’s a type of dementia, cancer, or anything else

Peace of mind for the family

Palliative care provides peace of mind both for you and for your loved ones, which is something you simply can’t put a price on

Your options for palliative care at home

At Helping Hands, we’re able to offer palliative care on a visiting and live-in care basis, with every aspect of your care being independently regulated and monitored.

Visiting care

Visiting care is for short, frequent calls at times that suit you. Your local Helping Hands team will provide you with a type and level of care that is perfectly suited to your needs.

With care visits starting from as little as 30 minutes per week, your visiting care can be planned around your routines and schedules

Visiting care allows you to benefit from having a type and level of support that is fully tailored to your specific needs and wishes

Your visiting carer will proactively help you to manage the symptoms of any condition you're living with

Live-in care

Live-in care places a specially trained live-in carer in your home to provide personalised support every day. Our live-in care is a popular option for many reasons, such as:

With a live-in carer, you will benefit from the round-the-clock support and companionship offered by having a carer in your home

A live-in carer will enable you to get the most out of life and continue doing the things you really enjoy, rather than worrying about maintaining your home

We know that having a carer move into your home is a big step for you to take, which is why we'll help you find someone who shares your interests and personality

Palliative care FAQs

Palliative care is support available to improve the quality of life of individuals who have a serious or life-threatening health condition, a common example being cancer. Palliative care addresses the person as a whole, not just their disease, and provides peace of mind to the individual and their families.

Palliative care is provided by our expertly trained carers. They can enable the individual to stay comfortable at home, as well as assisting their families with emotional support.

Palliative care can begin at any time that the individual decides, whereas hospice care is applicable when treatment is no longer the goal of care – favouring the quality of life of the recipient.

To arrange palliative care, please give a member of our customer care specialists a call, who will be happy to assist you with arranging your package of care.

When someone is in palliative care, it means that they’ve received a terminal diagnosis or are living with a progressive condition but aren’t necessarily at a point where they require specialist end-of-life care.

Palliative care is for anyone living with a terminal illness who needs support managing the symptoms of their condition and maintaining their comfort and independence.