Our team treats you with kindness and compassion, listens to your concerns and involves you in the decisions when mapping out your goal-directed care.
Palliative Care
Goal-Directed Care for Your Golden Years
Battling a serious illness can take a toll physically, mentally and spiritually, not only on you but the entire family. With your comfort always in mind, our palliative care team treats you with kindness and compassion, listens to your concerns and involves you in the decisions when mapping out your goal-directed care. Our focus is on relieving your symptoms and the stress related to your illness and improving the quality of life for you and your family.
Our Multidisciplinary Approach
Our palliative care team works in partnership with primary care physicians, hospitalists, and other specialties to provide care for the patients that is individualized, goal-directed and aids in the patient’s independence and quality of life.
Meeting Your Goals is Our Goal
We define your overall path of care based on your goals, therefore focusing more directly on the outcomes that are truly meaningful to you and your loved ones. Through our approach to palliative care you can expert:
- Keep pain to a minimum, using clinical methods.
- Treat symptoms and improve health where possible.
- Assist with mobility and safety.
- Allow meaningful interactions between patients and their friends, family and community.
- Improve spiritual and emotional well-being.
- Provide support for both patients and caregivers, allowing each to understand and express their feelings and keep them informed on treatment options.
- Reduce the burden on caregivers through training and assistance.
Can You Benefit from Palliative Care?
Palliative care can help patients dealing with a wide range of medical challenges. You or your loved one could benefit from Palliative if they are dealing with one or more of the following:
- Chronic and/or progressive illness
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder
- Recurrent hospitalizations
- Uncontrolled symptoms
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Dementia
- Cancer
- ALS
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Liver Disease
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Stroke
40 Million
Globally, an estimated 40 million people are in need of palliative care each year.
14 Percent
Currently only about 14% of those who need it actually receive palliative care.
6+ Million
Over 6 million people living in the United States could benefit from palliative care.
Find Us
Bristol Health Medical Group Beleden Gardens
85 Beleden Gardens Drive
Bristol, CT 06010
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