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Narrative

How Palliative Care Helps

The palliative care team helps people and their loved ones live as fully as possible during a serious, chronic, or otherwise life-limiting illness. Care is geared to the person and begins with physical comfort so that other needs — emotional, social, practical, and spiritual — may be fully met. The Palliative Care team remains sensitive to personal, cultural, and religious values, beliefs, and practices.

Hospice care may be appropriate when:

• Your symptoms are becoming harder to manage
• You are spending more time in the hospital, with less time between hospitalizations
• Your main goal is comfort and relief from pain or other symptoms
• You are thinking about ending curative treatments
• You are diagnosed with a condition such as heart failure, COPD, end-stage renal disease, dementia, cancer, or stroke and your illness is at a life-limiting stage.

Where is hospice provided?

Service Types

• Homemaker Services
• Hospice
• Nursing
• Occupational Therapy
• Personal Care Attendants
• Physical Therapy
• Speech Therapy

Program Type

• Respite
• Support Groups

Populations Served

• All Disabilities
• Developmental Disability
• Elderly Person with disabilities
• Physical Disabilities

Ages Served

• Birth to 3
• 3 - 4
• 5 - 8
• 9 - 13
• 14 - 18
• 19 - 22
• 23 – 59
• 60 +

Languages Spoken

• Chinese-Cantonese
• French
• Haitian-Creole
• Spanish

Accessibility Features

• Accessible Parking
• Accessible Restrooms
• Services at Home
• Wheelchair Ramps

Additional Information

• Fees: MassHealth, Medicare, Private Insurance, Personal Funds
• Licensed By: OFC,DPH