Advanced Illness Management
Advanced illness management helps individuals and their loved ones live as fully as possible during times of chronic or life-limiting illness. Our extensive range of health care services are brought to wherever you call home, including assisted living communities.
Clinicians work with adult and pediatric patients and their loved ones to create a flexible plan of care that focuses on controlling pain, managing symptoms, and addressing other physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical needs.
BENEFITS OF ADVANCED ILLNESS MANAGEMENT
VNA Care Network & Hospice's over 70 programs and services give patients and families more options. As a patient's needs change, services can be tailored accordingly. Benefits of Advanced Illness Management also include:
- Care that enables patients to remain at home during much or all of their illness
- Improved quality of life by addressing physical, emotional, practical and spiritual needs
- Services that help patients and families live as fully as possible during a stressful time
- Patients empowered as part of the health care team to take an active role in their care and make decisions about their health
- Loved ones supported in their role as caregivers
- Assistance with insurance and paperwork, medical equipment and supplies, advance care planning, and other issues related to illness and caregiving
WHEN TO CONSIDER ADVANCED ILLNESS MANAGEMENT
If you or a loved one is facing a chronic or terminal illness that is affecting your quality of life or beginning to interfere with your ability to live at home, we can help. Advanced Illness Management is appropriate for almost any illness including cancer, diabetes, AIDS, dementia, Parkinson's, and cardiac, lung, liver, respiratory, and neurological diseases. Call 800-728-1862.