MaineHealth Palliative Care Brunswick provides expert palliative care for people of all ages in Brunswick, Maine. Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and their family. Palliative care:
- Promotes quality of life
- Relieves symptoms and stress
- Helps at any age or any stage of illness
- Is provided along with other medical treatments
Specialized care and support for people living with serious illness
We work closely with patients and their families to determine the services that will provide the greatest benefit. These services may include:
- Management of pain and other symptoms
- Help with treatment choices, decisions and goals
- Planning for future care needs
- Emotional and spiritual support
- Integrative therapies such as acupuncture, reiki, massage and osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)
- Bereavement support and referral
- Assistance with community resources
- Completion of Advance Care Planning documents
More about our services
- Cancer
- Congestive heart failure
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Kidney disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Other serious illness
Palliative care (pronounced pal-lee-uh-tiv) is specialized medical care that provides help in managing pain and other symptoms of serious illness. It also provides emotional, psychological and spiritual support to patients and their families as they plan for the future. Palliative care teams work together with primary care physicians and specialists to create individualized care plans. The goal of care is to make the quality of life better for both the patient and the family.
Palliative care is for everyone with a serious illness that keeps them from living as well as possible. Many patients continue to get healing therapy while receiving palliative care. Palliative care is right at any time during a serious illness.
When an illness has progressed to an advanced stage and life-prolonging interventions are no longer desired, hospice care can provide compassion, care and comfort through the end of life.
