Enhancing Quality of Life Through Palliative Care
Palliative care is essential in improving the overall experience of patients facing serious illness. At Noblesville Pharmacy, we understand that the goal is not just to treat the disease but to provide comfort and dignity. Our compounded medications are designed to address unique patient needs, from managing symptoms to enhancing the quality of life for patients and their families during very challenging times.
Understanding Palliative Care
Palliative care is focused on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of serious illness with the goal of improving the quality of life for patients and their families. This approach is holistic and integrative, aimed at providing comfort rather than solely focusing on curative treatment. It can be offered at any stage of illness and can be integrated alongside other treatments.
Key Aspects of Palliative Care:
- • Effective support, physically, socially, and spiritually
- • Improving comfort for patients with serious and chronic illnesses
- • Managing spiritual, psychological, and physical pain
- • Helps families and caregivers cope with the challenges of caring for their loved ones
- • Available regardless of disease stage or prognosis
- • Can be combined at any stage, in a patient's illness
Common Symptoms Managed with Palliative Care Compounding
We customize medications to address a variety of symptoms, including:
Compounded Medications for Palliative Care
At Noblesville Pharmacy, we provide personalized formulations to provide relief in ways that are tailored to each patient's specific needs:
- • Relieving Lozenges (Troches), which are pain-relieving preparations that provide relief to a sore throat or mouth
- • Topical medications (Gels)
- • Suppositories
- • Pain-relief formulations
- • Anti-Nausea and Anti-Emetics
- • Anti-anxiety medications
- • Topical analgesics for localized pain
- • To provide patients with a more dignified and comfortable end-of-life experience
- • Sublimated formulas
- • Medicated lipstick or topical gels that coat the oral tissue
- • Customized dosage forms for patients who may have difficulty swallowing
- • Alternative flavors to improve medication compliance