Community Oncology Home Care refers to the nursing services and support rendered to patients with cancer and their caregivers in the comfort of the patients’ homes. This service is for patients who are suffering from an early stage of cancer and require oncology nursing assistance, education and support.
Hospice and Palliative Care
Hospice and Palliative Care is the active total care of patients and their families’ well-being by a multi-professional team at a time when the patient’s disease is no longer responsive to curative treatment and life expectancy is short. It responds to physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs and extends, if necessary, to support bereavement.
The goal of palliative care is to provide support and care for patients in the last phases of the disease so that they can live as fully and comfortably as possible. Palliative care includes providing relief for patients from pain and other distressing symptoms. It integrates psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care so that patients may come to terms with their own death as fully and constructively as they can.
Hospice care is offered to cancer patients:
- Who are in an advanced stage of disease and wish to stay at home but require close supervision and medical attention
- Whose symptoms can be reasonably controlled at home
- Who require emotional and practical support
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