Palliative Care

People with advanced COPD need to think about the eventual need for palliative care. This is care aimed at making you as comfortable as possible.

• Palliative care is always part of end-of-life care. But it can also be part of care for anyone at any stage of a serious or chronic illness.
  
• The purpose of palliative care is to ease symptoms linked to serious illnesses. Some of these symptoms may include pain, nausea, tiredness, shortness of breath, anxiety, and depression.
  
• Palliative care doesn't cure illness. But it does try to make living with symptoms easier. Palliative care measures can help decrease the feeling of shortness of breath, for example.
  
• People with severe COPD generally benefit from finding ways to decrease their physical effort to take care of their daily needs. Examples include living on one floor of a house or having meals provided.
  
• Check with your health insurance plan to see if this type of care is covered.
  

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