Welcome to Season 4 of Caregiver Tea Time!
Episode 2:
Let’s Get Real with pain control
Val shares how palliative care can relieve the suffering of both the patient and the caregiver when a loved one receives news of a life threatening illness.
In this episode, Val shares that pain is an inevitable part of caregiving, but there is something called palliative care that offers relief for suffering and hope for an improved quality of life for both the patient and the caregiver.
Early on, she felt palliative care meant the doctors thought loved ones would not get better. Now she realizes it doesn't mean "end of life care," and sees palliative care as an especially important service for caregivers, whose quality of life can suffer when they learn their loved one has a life threatening illness or disease.
She feels palliative care is important to the future of medicine.