If you’ve heard about palliative care before you might have wondered when it is applicable and who might get the most benefits from it. It turns out that palliative care is an option far more often than many people realize, especially if you take advantage of this type of care as soon as possible.
Seniors with Complex Medical Issues
Serious and complex medical issues, like cancer or heart failure, are not easy to manage. These health issues have complicated treatment plans and your elderly family member is bound to have good days and bad days. There’s a lot to coordinate when it comes to these types of health issues, and palliative care can make all of that much easier.
Seniors Experiencing Side Effects from Treatments
So often the treatments for serious health issues are just as debilitating as the illness itself. Managing those symptoms is equally complicated, and it helps for your elderly family member to have someone there who can help. Your elderly family member’s treatment plan may be one that her care providers can tweak for her as necessary in order to keep up with the symptoms and side effects she’s experiencing.
Seniors Having Trouble Regulating Emotions Around Their Health
Big emotions often come with big health problems. And they’re difficult to handle alone. Palliative care can put your elderly family member in touch with the help that she needs in order to be able to unpack and express how she’s feeling. She may find that her mental health is able to improve significantly, even if her physical health is still challenged by her illness.
Families Who Want to Support Seniors Going through Serious Health Issues
But it isn’t just your senior who is going through all of this. You and other family members who care about her are in a similar boat. Palliative care can help family members with understanding what is going on and managing their feelings around the situation, too. As her primary family caregiver, it can also help significantly for you to know that there’s someone with your senior so that you can take respite time. Being able to take care of yourself enables you to take care of your senior.
Managing difficult health issues is so much easier when your senior has the right help available to her as she needs it. Palliative care can support her and your entire family as you cope with the situation that she’s facing.
If you or an aging loved-one is considering Palliative Care in Flower Mound, TX please contact the caring staff at Arcy Healthcare today. 469-293-1515
My name is Jimmie Stapleton. I am the founder and CEO of Arcy Healthcare. Arcy Healthcare includes Arcy Hospice, Arcy Supportive Care, MaximaCare Home Health and Arcy at Home.
Arcy Hospice was opened in 2007 to provide care and support for individuals and families facing a life limiting illness. It was established after my wife Ellen, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, had completed her chemo and radiation therapies. At that time, things were looking positive, and we wanted to do something for our community that had been so supportive of our family during her treatments. Unfortunately, the cancer returned a few years later, and she subsequently passed away under our care in 2010.
In the years that followed, I began to see the need to provide the same level of excellent care to patients across the continuum of care. Therefore, we have added a home health division (MaximaCare Home Health), a palliative care division (Arcy Supportive Care), and a home care division, (Arcy at Home). With the addition of these divisions, we can meet most of the post-acute care needs for you and your family in your home.
I started Arcy Hospice with my wife as my motivation to provide exceptional care and support in the patient’s home, where they are surrounded by family and where they feel most comfortable. I’m proud to say that our staff provides some of the best in home care in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Please let us know if we can enrich the quality of life for you or a loved one.
Sincerely,
Jimmie Stapleton – Founder and CEO
Arcy Healthcare
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