Palliative Care

Palliative Care optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering throughout chronic and life-threatening illness. It addresses the resident’s physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs.

Palliative Care Is:

• An approach to resident care that is integrated with disease-modifying therapies
• Life-affirming care that regards dying as a normal process
• Not intended to hasten or postpone death
• A support system to help families cope during the resident’s illness and their own bereavement
• A program designed to enhance the quality of a resident’s life, and therefore may also positively influence the course of illness

Astoria’s Palliative Care Services

• A resident’s physician may recommend non-traditional therapies including:
• Acupuncture
• Hypnosis
• Light Therapy (Theragem)
• Guided Imagery
• Meditation
• Art Therapy
• Herbal Supplements