Palliative Care in Toronto

C-Care is proud to lead the way in professional, integrity-focused palliative care services. An increasing number of healthcare providers are familiarizing themselves with the essentiality of removing illness stress triggers and symptoms. As a result, our caregivers work closely with patients and their loved ones to help mitigate pain and hardship stemming from a wide variety of illnesses. Our focus is on ensuring maximum comfort while preserving patient dignity, enabling them to close the final chapter on their lives on their own terms.

Palliative care is a difficult subject for patients and their families to face; it represents an inability to cure the illness that has taken hold. Instead, the focus is to alleviate pain and symptoms to make the sunsetting period of a patient’s life as peaceful and stress-free as possible. 

Our private palliative care services can actively be applied to a wide range of illnesses and subsequent stages, and it is compatible with many different backgrounds. Heart disease, various cancers, Parkinson’s and Alzhiemer’s disease sufferers can all benefit from our comfort-focused end-of-life care.

The Role of Personal Support Workers in Palliative Care

Our aim at C-Care is to reduce the suffering of patients by making illness symptoms less effective. This way, we work closely with individuals to enhance their quality of life as best as possible. There are many serious illnesses with dramatic, painful symptoms that can be minimized with the assistance of our compassionate team.

Personal Support Workers are trained and experienced in performing multiple duties contributing to a comprehensive care program. We ensure they have the necessary skills and familiarity with appropriate treatment, not to mention a positive and supportive disposition that ensures the protection of patient dignity. A winning combination of appropriate personal and skills-based attributes makes the C-Care team an ideal choice for what can otherwise be a difficult process to face.

Our responsibilities for ensuring proper, compassionate care include:

• Constant monitoring and assessment of patient symptoms
• Administering medications based on established care plans and protocols 
• Working to address the psychological and emotional stress triggers in patients caused by illness, establishing and implementing means of coping for them and their loved ones
• Handling interventions to reduce the unwanted effects of symptoms
• Consulting with doctors, nurses, agencies and other healthcare practitioners to ensure appropriate palliative care solutions are implemented
• Assisting with the physical needs of patients around the home (activity, getting around, etc.)
• Personal care services such as handling feeding and bathing
• Massages and skin care to enhance patient comfort
• Monitoring equipment to ensure continued treatment effectiveness
• Assisting with food preparation and home upkeep
• Communicating with and listening to individuals and loved ones to ensure needs are adequately met
• Supporting patient independence, integrity and dignity
• Sensitivity to cultural and religious patient preferences from an unbiased perspective
• Maintaining emotional balance to help patients and their families navigate challenging transitions more effectively
• Assisting with catheters, colostomy equipment and wound care whenever deemed necessary
• Specimen collection for further analysis
• Recording, documenting and consulting valuable data for assessment
• Ensuring a safe, comfortable and clean environment for the patient as well as any visitors they have
• Transferring patients into/out of vehicles and accompanying them to any required appointments
• Assisting in care of pets or children under the patient’s guardianship
• Complying with the code and ethics of all Personal Support Workers

Alleviating Symptoms for Enhanced Quality of Life

End-of-life treatment does not – and should not – be wrought with physical or emotional pain. More serious illnesses, especially those in later stages, can present symptoms such as fatigue, nausea and crippling depression that can make for greater discomfort. Our goal is to implement palliative care solutions that provide ample relief of these and other symptoms, ensuring patients have the ability to make the most of the time they have left. This represents opportunities to make more memories with loved ones, maintain sufficient cognitive wellness to handle personal affairs such as estates, and improved comfort to make the sunsetting period less stressful. 

In addition, C-Care is proud to offer comprehensive emotional support aimed at helping patients and their families navigate what can otherwise be a difficult time. This treatment is ideal for those suffering from chronic illnesses and individuals close to the end of their lives, a time when emotional distress often takes hold.

Our Approach

We take the comfort, peace of mind and safety of our patients and families very seriously. As a result, our multidisciplinary approach has been continually optimized to ensure your absolute satisfaction with our comprehensive care program. We combine the expertise of nurses, psychologists, physicians and social workers to ensure all aspects of a patient’s needs – as well as those of their loved ones – are appropriately addressed.

When it comes to palliative care, patients and their families deserve the most compassionate, dignified and comfortable environment possible. With C-Care, our caregiving services can ensure the highest quality of life possible for all involved, easing the stresses of this difficult time and, along the way, enabling room for a few more happy memories together to cherish.

Contact us Today

For rates or other information on our Toronto palliative care services, contact us at 416-724-2273 or submit our online form. Reach out to us today to get started – we’re happy to help in any way we can.