Palliative medicine improves quality of life through expert symptom management, compassion, and support, alongside your ongoing treatment for serious illness.
Guiding You Toward Comfort, Control, and a Better Quality of Life
Palliative medicine, also known as palliative care, focuses on improving quality of life for people living with serious illness. It works alongside your current treatment plan to relieve pain, ease symptoms, and reduce stress—for both you and your family. At Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, our team coordinates closely with your physicians to provide the extra layer of support you need to live more comfortably and with greater peace of mind.
What is Palliative Medicine?
Expert Support for Serious Illness
Palliative medicine is specialized medical care for anyone facing a serious illness. It’s about improving comfort and quality of life, not replacing treatment. Our palliative specialists partner with patients, families, and other healthcare providers to relieve pain, manage symptoms, and address the stress that often comes with complex medical care.
How Palliative Medicine Helps
Care That Works Alongside Treatment
While you continue to receive treatment for your illness, palliative medicine focuses on easing the side effects and symptoms that can limit your daily life.
Our providers help manage:
- Pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Shortness of breath
- Fatigue
- Confusion
- Depression or anxiety
Where You Can Receive Care
Flexible Care, Wherever You Are
Palliative medicine is available in many settings, including:
- Private homes
- Assisted living facilities
- Skilled nursing facilities
- Hospitals
- Telehealth visits
- Outpatient clinics, including our LifeCare Center for Palliative Medicine in Wilmington, NC, the first free-standing palliative clinic in southeastern North Carolina.
LifeCare Center for Palliative Medicine
The First of Its Kind in Southeastern North Carolina
Our clinic at 2250 Shipyard Blvd., Suite 6, Wilmington, provides convenient access to specialized care for patients living with serious illnesses. Located in Barclay Commons, the center works in coordination with Novant Health Zimmer Cancer Institute and other area providers. Here, patients receive compassionate support designed to ease symptoms, improve comfort, and enhance daily living, while continuing treatment for their conditions.
When to Ask About Palliative Medicine
Extra Support that Makes a Difference
Many patients and families say they wish they had started palliative care sooner. If you’re struggling with symptoms, stress, or uncertainty about treatment options, palliative medicine can help. Anyone can request a consultation—patients, family members, or healthcare providers.
ASSESSMENT QUIZ
Unsure of the right next step?
You don’t have to take this journey alone. This 60-second assessment will help you determine whether hospice or palliative care is the right choice.
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