Palliative care in Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Grange offers you professional Palliative Care services with our experienced compassionate care teams. Our Palliative Care is highly tailored to you or your loved one’s requirements and is available 24/7, so you can count on our palliative care team to help improve the quality of life for our residents.
Palliative Care & Support at Welwyn Grange Care Home
Welwyn Garden City is home to several care homes that provide palliative care, but one home with outstanding palliative care is Welwyn Grange. A care home where the palliative care teams support the residents 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to provide friendly care. The palliative care and support we provide enable you or your loved ones live life to the fullest. When End-of-life care is required, each person can have a natural and pain-free death as possible. Great palliative care is not just about the last stages of life, early identification of an incurable illness grants access to palliative care early on while receiving treatment for your medical illness. At Welwyn Grange, our palliative care team is proud to deliver the highest standards of specialised medical care for those living with a life-threatening illness. The supportive care team aims to give friendly compassionate care to our palliative care residents in order to maintain strong physical well-being and positive mental health, providing relief from serious illnesses to improve the quality of life for our residents.
Why choose Welwyn Grange Care Home?
The quality of palliative care delivered at Welwyn Grange is uniquely special. The nursing team are supernumerary to the main care team, which enables them to focus purely on giving personalised care for the palliative and End of Life care residents. This allows them to build genuine friendly relationships with the residents and support them in living a happy meaningful life.
Welwyn Grange care home offers a vast amount of different activities and events, residents can enjoy throughout the month. There are different activities every single day that the care team promotes. The residents can participate in active events and also socialise and make new friends with the other residents. At Welwyn Grange, our care home team follows a holistic approach to palliative care. This approach follows the clinical practice guidelines and supports the ‘whole you’, combining your social and spiritual support with the clinical management of your medical condition. Such an attentive, proactive and friendly holistic care approach to palliative care at Welwyn Grange is why so many individuals with a life-limiting illness choose to stay in safe hands with us.
Tailored Palliative care at Welwyn Grange Care Home
At Welwyn Grange in Welwyn Garden City, we pride ourselves on our outstanding tailored palliative care to support residents with their individual terminal illnesses. Initial assessments are carried out to ensure all our residents who receive palliative care receive the appropriate type of medical support and to enable the care team to understand your individual needs further. Our compassionate friendly palliative care teams always go one step further to ensure the best quality of life for our residents. Such examples include checking the premises are well-lit for those with poorer eyesight or spacious corridors and communal areas for easy navigation for residents with mobility difficulties. Fully paid for by Welwyn Grange, residents receiving palliative care have access to an enhanced GP service, to ensure effortless and quick access to speak to friendly healthcare professionals.
The interior spaces at Welwyn Grange have been thoughtfully designed with accessibility and independence in mind, to create a warm cosy home that feels just like home with correct lighting and clear signage to make it easier and a joy to live independently.
Cost of Palliative care at Welwyn Grange Care Home
At Welwyn Grange, we prefer a transparent approach to palliative healthcare costs at our care home. This enables our residents to continue to have full control of their finances when funding their own care. Before attaining palliative care at Welwyn Grange care home, we feel it is vital to assess you or your loved one, to be confident that the right support and personal care can be delivered for each resident as they may require different needs. This allows us to provide complete clarity of the palliative care home fees and signpost to any funding you may be able to receive.
The weekly figure proposed is dependent on which apartment or room you choose, and encompasses all the necessary palliative personal care. The cost also includes anything that is typically described as ‘hotel costs’ which entails your food and drink, including laundry (including bed linen and personal clothing).
“Once assessed, the only things you will need to budget for are down to your personal choice, things like hairdressing or chiropody appointments or your own daily paper, or personal interest magazine”
Frequently Asked Questions About Palliative Care
What does it mean when someone is in palliative care?
When someone is in palliative care, it means the care they receive is specialised medical care that aims to provide pain relief and relief from any other symptoms of a serious illness. Palliative care also tries to help the individual cope with any side effects from medical treatments.
Is palliative care the same as end-of-life care?
The short answer is that no they are not completely the same. Palliative care is available to those who have learnt early on they have a life-limiting terminal illness while still receiving treatment. However, end-of-life care is a form of palliative care that the individual receives when they are close to the end of life. If you would like to know more information, feel free to get in touch with one of our friendly staff members at Welwyn Grange.
What are the 3 forms of palliative care?
There are 3 forms of palliative care – physical, psychological and spiritual. At Welwyn Grange, our dedicated team focus on supporting your physical symptoms, and social and spiritual aspects with the clinical management of your illness or symptoms.
