Home-Based Palliative Care
Home-Based Palliative Care is part of our Homecare Program and provides an extra layer of support for children with serious, life-limiting conditions and their families—all in the comfort of home.
Our pediatric interdisciplinary team works alongside your child’s existing health care teams, bringing expertise in comfort, quality of life and navigating serious illness. Care is shaped by what matters most to your child and family and evolves as your child’s needs change.
How We Can Help
Every child and family has different needs. Our team can help with:
- Pain and symptom management: Helping your child feel as comfortable as possible at home.
- Decision support: Talking through medical decisions in the context of your family’s goals, values, and hopes for your child.
- Integration of care: Bringing together treatments, specialists, and family priorities so your child’s care makes sense as a whole.
- Planning for what’s ahead: Helping your family anticipate changes and feel prepared for what may come next.
- Whole-family support: Supporting the emotional, social, developmental, and spiritual needs of your child and family.
The Care Team
Our team includes professionals with different areas of expertise, all working toward shared goals for your child and family.
- Physicians: Manage symptoms, support medical decision-making, and help families plan for changing needs.
- Nurses: Provide expert assessment, symptom management, education, and ongoing support at home.
- Social Workers: Support emotional and practical needs and connect families with helpful resources.
- Chaplain: Provides spiritual and emotional support grounded in each family’sbeliefs, values, and traditions.
- Child Life Specialist: Helps children and siblings understand and cope with illness in developmentally appropriate ways.
- Music Therapist: Uses music to support comfort, expression, connection, and meaningful experiences.
- Massage Therapist: Uses therapeutic touch to promote comfort, relaxation, and well-being.
- Care coordinator: Helps the clinical team and family with non-urgent communications, ordering, and triaging phone
