Care

Priyajeewaka Nursing Home & Home Nursing strives to provide comprehensive palliative care, focusing on pain alleviation, comfort, emotional support, and quality of life for each patient, to all our residents suffering from life-limiting illnesses. We identify ourselves with the kind of challenges a person living with life-limiting conditions goes through and tend to provide him with a tender and caring environment from within our Nursing Home setup.

Our Palliative Care Services

Pain and Symptom Management
We place a high value on being able to provide proper pain relief and symptom management for our patients. Our professionally trained medical team members apply their expertise in using a one-of-a-kind combination of pharmaceuticals, therapies, and holistic techniques for managing pain, nausea, fatigue, and other distressing symptoms.

Emotional and Psychiatric Support

Serious illness can have an emotional effect on patients and families. Our dedicated counselors and social workers provide for emotional and psychological support to help the residents and families cope with the stress and emotions that arise from ill health.

Personalized Treatment Plans

No two residents are alike, nor are our care plans. We believe every person has a special combination of needs that require specially tailored programming. Individual care plans are developed in concert with the patient, family members, and attending physicians to interweave a general program structure with personal preferences and needs that assure holistic, patient-centered care.

Comfort and Dignity

We understand the need to maintain dignity and comfort at all times for all our residents. We provide an atmosphere that is serene and home-like, allowing patients to be at ease. Our staff has been trained to show their care and respect while working, considering the well-being and dignity of each individual.

Family Support and Involvement

We feel that the involvement of family in the process of palliative care is very important. Hence, we offer our support by letting families understand the process of care and how they can best help their loved ones. We encourage families to participate in the care and decision-making processes themselves.

Quality Palliative Care: Our Commitment

Palliative care at Priyajeewaka Nursing Home focuses on comprehensive support for the gravely ill patient. Our caring and committed health-care team works to enhance the quality of life for our residents through personal attention, pain alleviation, and emotional support.

• Experienced and Compassionate Team: Our staff has specialized training in palliative care and is committed to rendering empathetic, yet professional, support.

• Holistic Approach: Addressing the needs of our residents—body, soul, and spirit—to ensure comprehensive care.

• Collaborative Care: We design and initiate our care plans in collaboration with healthcare providers, families, and patients.

Conditions of Patients and Our Mode of Treatment in Palliative Care at Priyajeewaka Nursing Home

Priyajeewaka Nursing Home offers our residents with complex medical conditions specialized care in the form of palliative treatment. This care is given with the objective of symptom management, pain relief, and psychological and emotional support to enhance the quality of life for our residents.

1. Cancer

Conditions: Advanced cancer is often complicated by severe pain, fatigue, nausea and emotional stress.
Treatments: Pain is managed with medications also alternative therapies. Nutritional support and anti-nausea medications help in the symptomatic management of the patient while counselling services take care of the emotional needs.

Common Patient Conditions and Our Treatment Methods

2. Heart Disease

Conditions: Congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease and other disorders of the heart manifest with shortness of breath, fatigue and chest pain.
Treatment: We provide medication for heart function and the relief of symptoms. Oxygen therapy is used for breathlessness. Lifestyle modifications, like healthy dieting, regular exercise, quitting smoking, and stress management are made to ensure improved health of hearts. Emotional and psychological support is given to residents in dealing with the stress of their condition.

3. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Conditions: COPD causes chronic respiratory symptoms like cough, breathlessness and repeated lung infections.
Treatment: We provide respiratory therapies like bronchodilators and steroids for the alleviation of symptoms. Supplemental oxygen therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation exercises help enhance breathing. Nutritional support provides the necessary calories that patients may struggle to take in through food due to breathing difficulty.

4. Renal Failure

Conditions: The patient with Chronic Kidney Disease or End-Stage Renal Disease is experiencing fatigue, fluid retention, and electrolyte imbalance.
Treatment: We manage the symptoms through medications, diet restriction and, if required, by dialysis support. Regular monitoring and adjustment would keep one in optimal health while the emotional support would help the mental depression that one faces because of this disease.

5. Neurodegenerative Diseases

Conditions: Conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS cause progressive neurological deterioration thus leading to physical and cognitive disability.
Treatment: The medical management of symptoms and modification of the course of illness is done with medications, physical and occupational therapy, and particular activities to stimulate cognitive function. There is also the provision for emotional and psychological support to the patients and their family members..

6. Advanced Liver Disease

Conditions: Cirrhosis and various liver diseases may manifest confusion, jaundice, fluid retention, and other symptoms suggestive of advanced disease.
Treatment: Symptom management is effected through medications, nutritional support, and procedures that will help remove excess fluids. A regular follow up and adjustment in the care plan ensures the best quality of life possible for the patient while counseling helps patients cope with the emotional problems brought about by the disease.

7. Stroke

Conditions: Physical and cognitive impairments; difficulty of speech, emotional changes in survivors after a stroke.
Treatment: These are incorporated in our multidisciplinary approach of treatment through physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy. This will aid in the improvement of function and communication. We also provide medications for the management of residual symptoms and the emotional support to help the psychological impact that goes along with recovering from stroke

Our Commitment to Quality Palliative Care

We take pride in providing our residents with the best possible palliative care from our esteemed nursing home, Priyajeewaka Nursing Home. Our multidisciplinary team works collaboratively to make and implement an individual care plan that suits each patient's peculiar needs, thus providing comprehensive and compassionate support.