ENHANCING COMFORT & QUALITY OF LIFE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH A LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS

Palliative care is comprehensive, interdisciplinary care designed to promote comfort and quality of
life for residents with a progressive life-limiting illness.  It provides resources in managing pain and other symptoms of illness, addresses fear and anxiety and offers support to families. As residents transition through their illness to the end of life, palliative care services help them achieve a comfortable, meaningful death.  Our focus on family increases their peace of mind, as well as preparation for loss. 

Palliative care encompasses a holistic approach that focuses on the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of residents at any point during the course of a progressive illness or the aging process.  It does not require the diagnosis of a terminal illness.  The Potomac Valley palliative care team consists of trained, dedicated staff from multiple disciplines, including medicine, nursing, social work, psychiatry, dietary, activities, and pastoral care.  Ongoing assessment by the team helps insure that care is evaluated and modified if needed.

End of life should not mean the end of quality time with family and friends.  We work hard to help residents and the people important to them capture as many special moments as possible.  We try to enable the resident to achieve maximum physical comfort so that he or she may experience quality family time.