Take Advantage of Free Palliative Care Webinars, Podcasts and Videos

Would you like to know about a medical team that can help you manage the symptoms and stress of living with a serious illness?  If you have cancer, COPD, heart or kidney disease, Parkinson’s, or any other serious illness, you might benefit from palliative care. If you don’t know much about it, watch and listen to the webinars, podcasts and videos on GetPalliativeCare.org.  You will learn from other patients, caregivers and palliative care experts as they explain how a referral to a palliative care team can help provide improve your quality of life.

Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness. This type of care focuses on relief from the symptoms and stress of your illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family.

Palliative care is provided by a specially-trained team of doctors, nurses and other specialists who work together with your other doctors to provide an extra layer of support.  Palliative care is appropriate at any age and at any stage in your illness, and it can be provided along with curative treatment.

About GetPalliativeCare.Org

GetPalliativeCare.Org is an online resource for patients and families that focuses solely on providing information on palliative care from the point of diagnosis.  At GetPalliativeCare.Org you can learn more, look for palliative care in the Provider Directory, and take a short quiz to see whether you could benefit from palliative care.  The site is provided by the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

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