Palliative Care

AtlantiCare Healthcare at Home provides professional palliative care, a highly specialized form of home health care that supports the needs of patients facing progressive illness.  Its focus: managing the patient’s symptoms in a way that enhances their quality of life.

Patients requiring palliative care at home are not necessarily facing end-of-life problems.  They could:

• Recover fully
• Live with a chronic disease for an extended period of time, adjusting their lifestyle to accommodate the disability
• Experience a disease which gets progressively worse

Palliative care:

• Relieves pain and suffering
• Relieves other physical problems
• Relieves psychosocial problems 
• Provides faith-based support

Palliative care treats patients in a way that restores their dignity.  It’s used to treat:

• Chronic progressive pulmonary disorders
• Chronic heart failure
• HIV/AIDS
• Progressive neurological conditions
• Some forms of cancer

The AtlantiCare Healthcare at Home palliative staff includes:

• Certified oncology nurses
• Certified professional nurses
• Certified psychiatric nurses
• Spiritual  care support
• Specially-trained Home Health Aides
• Social workers
• Nutritional counselors
• Certified physical therapists
• Certified respiratory therapists
• Staff physicians at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center

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