There is no suffering greater than knowing an illness cannot be cured. The patient may require emotional, social, and psychological support to live with an incurable condition. It is equally stressful for caregivers as they feel helpless and do not know how to proceed. This is where palliative care and management services offer support and guidance to improve the lives of patients.

Our palliative treatment specialists do not just offer pain relief and disease management; they understand your needs and challenges and develop a comprehensive plan to ease the process.

Who Needs Palliative Care?

Palliative care is given to those with severe symptoms that disrupt day-to-day functions. You can request palliative care medicine to manage pain, mental health, and social conditions. Palliative treatments can improve the patient’s quality of life if they have been diagnosed with conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, cervical pains, cancer, COVID-19, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart, kidney, lung, or liver conditions, HIV & AIDS, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson disease, or stroke. While some diseases have controllable symptoms, others require ongoing medicinal or hormonal therapies.

Advantages of Palliative Care

Having a chronic disease does not mean the end of everything. With some lifestyle adjustments, palliative care medicines, and acceptance offer a fulfilling life. Palliative care offers a renewed chance to live. It improves the patient’s quality of life, life expectancy, mental health, and self-esteem.

Narayana Health Palliative Army

Chronic illnesses have a wide range of symptoms and massively affect the patient’s physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Narayana Health has an army of trained and experienced palliative care providers. They stay up to date with the latest research and solutions to improve the living conditions of their patients and offer the most comfortable lives they can. Our team includes:

Specialist doctors from diverse domains that prescribe palliative care medicine
Pain relief and management experts
Psychiatrists and psychologists
Social workers
Nurses
Nutritionists
Physical fitness coaches
End-of-life care experts

Complete Care for Pain and Palliative Treatments?

The Department of Pain and Palliative Care at Narayana Health addresses the patient’s and caregiver’s physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Our pain and palliative services are designed to focus on your active total care for cancerous & non-cancerous advanced diseases. In addition, you also get the legal and financial advice you need to deal with the circumstances efficiently. Narayana Health offers a broad spectrum of palliative services:

Symptom relief

Palliative care works toward reducing the symptoms and discomfort. For instance, to reduce pain, episodes of fits, bleeding, constipation, sleep disorders, dizziness due to medications, shortness of breath, etc. Narayana Health has pain relief management expertise in:

Arthritis
Backaches
Atypical facial pain, Trigeminal Neuralgia
Fibromyalgia / Myofascial/ Musculoskeletal pain
Headaches
Pain in the neck or shoulders
Cervical pain treatment
CPRS I & II
Pelvic and abdominal pain
Sciatica (Searing Pain from Back to legs)
Sports Injuries

Mental Health Support

Ongoing treatments, hospital visits, helplessness, and discomfort may severely affect the patient’s and their loved ones’ mental health. Some of the common conditions that may affect the patient during palliative care include depression, anxiety, loss of self-worth, and stress. The good news is most of them can be managed with the right guidance. Our palliative mental health support team may suggest cognitive, relaxation, and breathing exercises. They may also advise you to meditate regularly. Our counsellors also offer talk therapy to help you release all your blocked emotions and share your feelings without the fear of judgment. Additionally, mental health support reduces insomnia and sleeping disorders induced by palliative care stress.

Education and Advocacy

The palliative team at Narayana Health helps you understand the condition and its short and long-term impacts on your life. They can help choose from the available palliative treatment options. They can also educate you transparently about the chances of the patient’s complete recovery. They ensure you make informed decisions, and the patient lives the highest possible quality of life. They also help you communicate your priorities and values to the disease treatment team. The mental health team also supports the patient's spouse, parents, children, and even workmates.

Social support

Knowing that you are not alone can be a great consolation, it is often found effective, especially among kids, to help regain confidence and hope. Our palliative care specialists help you build a support network and a community of people with similar conditions to exchange experiences. They can also guide the patient’s caregivers to balance care and household responsibilities to prevent them from getting overwhelmed. This is especially helpful for those new to palliative care and ongoing illness and pain management.

Financial and Legal Support

Financial and legal support is extremely crucial for serious illnesses and fatal diseases. Our F&L support professional helps you make informed decisions regarding managing costs, living arrangements, and often making end-of-life choices so you can stay peaceful and stress-free about the well-being of your family. They also help the patient address employment concerns. With remote work getting popular, there is some relief in this area. Our specialists offer advice on alternative, less stressful sources of income to help the patient maintain a life of dignity and afford the treatment.

Paediatric Palliative Care

Young people have very different needs than adults. Narayana Health follows WHO’s principle of “active total care of the child’s body, mind, and spirit.” Our doctors are considerate of the fact that early years are crucial for education and social skills development. They realise that it will have a strong impact on their lives. Moreover, infants and toddlers might not even understand all that they are going through and fail to communicate their discomfort. Therefore, we have a highly-trained and well-experienced paediatric ongoing team. Parents suffer emotionally and mentally, seeing their kids in such situations. We provide mental health and stress management support to parents as well. Effective palliative care for young patients involves a multidisciplinary approach and the participation of family and the community to make them feel they belong. Our palliative treatment ensures that the emotional needs of kids are met. We support parents by connecting them to communities offering reading material, and

When to Start Palliative Care

While the primary doctor will tell you when the diagnoses indicate a chronic condition, it is your choice to start palliative care immediately or wait. However, starting early can prevent the condition from aggravating and symptoms from becoming unbearable. Moreover, this prepares you for what is to come and helps you cope with the ailment better.

Get the Top-of-The Line Palliative Care Where You Need

We understand that living away from the family is never desirable and often unmanageable. Therefore, we provide ongoing to the best of our abilities at your chosen place.

Narayana Health pain management and palliative care facility is available at:

The hospital’s palliative living facility
In our outpatient clinics
Patient’s home
In a nursing or old-age home

However, you must know that our doctors thoroughly assess and understand your situation to offer the best advice. They recommend in-patient palliative treatment only if necessary. This can be for patients with adverse sleep apnoea (people who forget to breathe while sleeping), or those with a high vulnerability to heart failure or stroke and other situations where any delay in emergency care can prove fatal. They may also advise an in-hospital treatment for contagious diseases, such as COVID-19 or bird flu. Accepting their recommendations is entirely your decision. Our doctors offer the most suitable and tailored palliative care according to your preferences only.

Pain Management & Palliative Care