Palliative Care
supporting individuals with palliative care at home
We know navigating life at the end-of-life stage is incredibly challenging. That’s why our experienced Care Professionals are dedicated to delivering the highest level of comfort and compassionate support to you and your family. We focus intensely on your specific comfort goals, expert pain and symptom control, liaising and working with the Palliative care team and preserving dignity, enabling you to live your final chapter peacefully and on your own terms in the familiar surroundings of your own home.
Springfield Healthcare provides comprehensive, personalised support, ensuring individuals receive the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual support they need at home. This includes assisting with proactive symptom relief and management, ensuring your choices regarding care are respected, and offering practical daily assistance. Our care is built on providing crucial companionship and focusing always on promoting dignity, autonomy, and a peaceful environment for you and your loved ones.
Personalised palliative Care
The Benefits of Receiving palliative Care at Home
- Familiarity and Psychological Comfort: Being in your own home, surrounded by familiar belongings, people, and routines, provides immense psychological comfort and stability. It allows you to maintain a sense of dignity and peace, ensuring the final stage of life is spent in the place you feel safest and most secure.
- Optimal Environment for Symptom Control: The home environment allows for immediate, dedicated attention focused on pain and symptom management. Expert carers can proactively manage discomfort, nausea and other symptoms, making prompt adjustments to care that lead to more stable and consistent comfort than often achievable in a busy institutional setting.
- Personalised, One-to-One Care and Respect for Wishes: Home care provides dedicated, undivided attention from a professional who is focused solely on your comfort goals and personal choices. The care plan is entirely bespoke, adapting quickly to your evolving physical and emotional needs, ensuring your autonomy and advance care wishes are respected and honoured.
- Enhanced Rest and Peace: Your own bed and familiar surroundings promote better quality sleep and rest, which is essential for comfort and peace. Being away from the clinical environment minimizes disruptions, allowing the individual and family to share undisturbed, quality time together.
- Companionship and Emotional Support: Our professionals offer more than just physical help; they provide consistent companionship, a supportive presence, and an outlet for conversation. They also facilitate access to emotional and spiritual support for both the individual and their family, helping to navigate grief and uncertainty.
- Relief for Family Caregivers: Our home care professionals allow loved ones to focus on being a spouse, child or friend again, rather than a full-time carer managing complex medical needs. This helps preserve family relationships and gives them valuable peace of mind knowing the individual is receiving expert, specialised and compassionate care.
Our commitment to You
Our mission is to ensure that during this stage of life, you never have to compromise your dignity, comfort or control.
We manage the complexities of proactive symptom relief, pain management, and comprehensive physical support so you and your loved ones can focus on what truly matters: peace, comfort, and spending quality time together in the place you feel safest.
Contact us today to discuss how we can create a dedicated care partnership built entirely around your unique comfort goals, personal wishes and comprehensive support needs.
how does the process work?
1. Speak to our team
Call our team of experts to talk through your options and any questions you may have.
2. free care assessment
Your local assessment team will visit you in your home to discuss your requirements and learn about the type of carer you’re after.
3. Find your carer
If you’re happy with the assessment, we’ll help to match you with a carer who meets your preferences and has the right skills and experience for your needs.
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frequently asked questions
How quickly can a personalised care plan and carer be put in place?
We understand that support is often needed quickly, especially following hospital discharge. Our process is designed to be swift and efficient. Care can often be initiated within 24-48 hours after the free care assessment is complete and the carer match is confirmed.
How are your carers trained specifically for supporting individuals with palliative care?
Our carers receive specialist in-house training crucial for supporting individuals at the end of life. This training focuses intensively on proactive symptom and pain management techniques and highly effective sensitive communication strategies. We also provide vital education on honouring the patient’s choices and advance care wishes to ensure they can promptly spot and report subtle shifts in comfort or condition. Our primary emphasis is on compassionate care that promotes the client’s dignity, peace, and control throughout their palliative journey.
What is the typical cost of in-home care, and what funding options are available?
As our care is entirely personalised, the cost is dependent on the level of support you require, whether that be visiting care, live-in care or specific hours per week. We provide a transparent quote after our free care assessment which precisely defines your needs. Furthermore, we can advise you on various options you may be eligible for, including local authority funding, NHS Continuing Healthcare (for certain clinical needs), or disability benefits that can contribute to the cost of your care.
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