America’s Heroes Group Roundtable for Military Family Caregivers was honored to have cancer patient advocate Phylicia L. Woods as a recent guest panelist during a discussion of palliative care.
Palliative care is specialized medical care for patients with serious illnesses like Alzheimer’s, cancer, and cardiac disease that focuses on pain and symptom management.
Palliative care works to improve the quality of life for both patient and family.
Patients, or their designee, can ask their medical team for a referral to palliative care.
The guiding principles of palliative care can be used to respond to COVID patients’ needs, manage symptoms, and provide support for families.
