The goals of palliative care are to improve quality of life, reduce physical discomfort and make living with a serious illness easier. Palliative care specialists treat people living with many disease types and chronic illnesses. See the comprehensive list below.
Palliative care focuses on the symptoms and stress of the disease and the treatment. It treats a wide range of issues that can include pain, depression, anxiety, fatigue, shortness of breath, constipation, nausea, loss of appetite and difficulty sleeping.
Palliative care teams help you tolerate medical treatments, match your goals to your treatment choices, support your family caregivers and more.
Disease Types:
- ALS
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Cancer
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Dementia
- Eosinophil Associated Disease (EAD)
- Heart Failure
- HIV/AIDS
- Huntington’s Disease
- Kidney Disease
- Liver disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Stroke
- Other Disease Types
