Palliative Care
Palliative Care
Palliative Care
Serious illness can change your daily life. Pain, fatigue, and worry can make each day harder. You and your family may feel unsure where to turn or how to talk about what matters most.
Palliative care helps support you and your family during serious illness. This care helps ease symptoms and reduce stress for everyone. It can start early, and you’ll keep getting your regular treatments.
Carilion Clinic’s palliative care experts work alongside your other care teams. We help you feel better, understand your choices, and plan next steps.
Palliative care supports you when you’re seriously ill by helping teams focus on what matters most day to day. Our palliative care teams work alongside your other treatment teams. At Carilion, palliative care includes:
- Symptom relief: Care helps ease pain, nausea, breathing trouble, fatigue, sleep problems, and appetite loss
- Emotional and spiritual support: Care helps with worry, fear, low mood, and spiritual concerns
- Care planning: Teams help guide goals and care wishes and may connect families to advance care planning services when helpful
Palliative care at Carilion is available in the hospital, in outpatient clinics, and in other care settings. In some cases, care takes place in the Palliative Care Unit at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Your care team adjusts to your needs. Depending on the situation, the team may include doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors, and chaplains. Our teams work together to support you and those caring for you.
Caregivers play an important role in palliative care. We encourage your family and other caregivers to share what they see day to day and take part in planning for your future care.
How Palliative Care Works at Carilion
Palliative care supports you when you’re seriously ill by helping teams focus on what matters most day to day. Our palliative care teams work alongside your other treatment teams. At Carilion, palliative care includes:
- Symptom relief: Care helps ease pain, nausea, breathing trouble, fatigue, sleep problems, and appetite loss
- Emotional and spiritual support: Care helps with worry, fear, low mood, and spiritual concerns
- Care planning: Teams help guide goals and care wishes and may connect families to advance care planning services when helpful
Palliative care at Carilion is available in the hospital, in outpatient clinics, and in other care settings. In some cases, care takes place in the Palliative Care Unit at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Your care team adjusts to your needs. Depending on the situation, the team may include doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors, and chaplains. Our teams work together to support you and those caring for you.
Caregivers play an important role in palliative care. We encourage your family and other caregivers to share what they see day to day and take part in planning for your future care.
Palliative care may help when serious illness brings symptoms, stress, or hard choices. This care is for:
- Adults of any age
- People at any stage of illness
- Seriously ill people with ongoing symptoms or side effects
- People in the hospital or at home
- Families and caregivers who need support
People who can benefit from palliative care include those with health issues, including:
- Cancer
- Advanced heart disease
- Chronic lung disease
- Kidney failure
- Memory disorders
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Multiple sclerosis
Who Can Get Palliative Care?
Palliative care may help when serious illness brings symptoms, stress, or hard choices. This care is for:
- Adults of any age
- People at any stage of illness
- Seriously ill people with ongoing symptoms or side effects
- People in the hospital or at home
- Families and caregivers who need support
People who can benefit from palliative care include those with health issues, including:
- Cancer
- Advanced heart disease
- Chronic lung disease
- Kidney failure
- Memory disorders
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Multiple sclerosis
Palliative care connects you and your family to services that support comfort, planning, and care across settings.
Related services include:
Palliative Care Services at Carilion
Palliative care connects you and your family to services that support comfort, planning, and care across settings.
Related services include:
Meet Our Palliative Care Team
The palliative care team includes experts trained in serious illness care. They focus on comfort, clear planning, and support for people and families.
Find a Palliative Medicine Specialist
Carilion palliative care offers support to both you and your caregivers and family. Our team focuses on coordination, access, and continuity.
Care across Carilion
Our palliative care team works closely with treatment teams, outpatient clinics, and specialty services. We connect with your other specialty care teams, keeping the lines of communication clear.
Support for caregivers and families
Carilion offers support, counseling, and support groups for you and your caregivers. We help your whole family cope with stress, share their experiences, and feel less alone.
Access across care settings
Palliative care is available in the hospital, outpatient settings, and other care locations. It’s easier to get support, no matter what your needs are.
Clear pathways to next steps
When your needs change, our teams help connect you to other services within Carilion. We work closely with hospice, home care, advance care planning, and bereavement support.
Why Choose Carilion Clinic?
Carilion palliative care offers support to both you and your caregivers and family. Our team focuses on coordination, access, and continuity.
Research and Education
We care about education and training the next generation of palliative care teams. We’re building strong teams for future patients in partnership with Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
Teaching future doctors
Palliative care faculty teach and mentor medical students and residents training in other specialties. We help future doctors learn how to support you and your families during serious illness.
Palliative medicine fellowship
Carilion offers a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. We give doctors advanced training in comfort, communication, and care planning for seriously ill people. We’re ensuring skilled, thoughtful care for future patients.
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Get Care at Carilion Clinic
Talk with your care team about palliative care options at Carilion. Use our online tools to find a doctor, choose a location, and learn how to request a visit or referral.
Get Care at Carilion Clinic
Talk with your care team about palliative care options at Carilion. Use our online tools to find a doctor, choose a location, and learn how to request a visit or referral.
Get Care at Carilion Clinic
Talk with your care team about palliative care options at Carilion. Use our online tools to find a doctor, choose a location, and learn how to request a visit or referral.
Get Care at Carilion Clinic
Talk with your care team about palliative care options at Carilion. Use our online tools to find a doctor, choose a location, and learn how to request a visit or referral.