Serious Illness Medicine
Helping seniors manage complex conditions and decisions
Serious illness includes conditions that threaten a person’s lifespan, daily activities, and overall well-being, or place significant strain on caregivers.
For seriously ill patients choosing to continue with curative treatment, we prioritize illness management that preserves or improves their quality of life. A core part of our approach is guiding their advance care planning journey in preparation for when they are very sick and can no longer speak for themselves.
Personalized supportive care
We provide virtual and on-premise physician visits for people facing serious illness who want to discuss, identify, and receive supportive and palliative care in accordance with their personal goals.
What We Offer
Serious Illness Care
Flexible Consultations
Patients enrolled with Care Associates clinicians have prompt and easy access to our physicians and nurse practitioners by phone, video, or on-premise visits.
Treatment Management
Our clinicians are experts in identifying and managing serious illnesses and prescribing or coordinating curative treatments with other specialists.
Advance Care Planning
Early advance care planning ensures your medical wishes are known before a crisis happens. It helps your loved ones and doctors make decisions that honor your values, reduces stress during emergencies, and gives you more control over your care.
Support & Guidance
We rely on knowledge, access, education and intervention to help patients and their families through the fears, expectations, needs, and decision-making that accompany a serious illness situation.
Would your loved one benefit from Serious Illness Care?
If you suspect an undiagnosed or incomplete plan of care regarding a serious illness, it is important to seek evaluation and consultation with a serious illness medicine professional to assess the medical situation, identify the life values and treatment goals of the patient, and assist implementing the best approach to treatment that considers and integrates all these factors.
Our physicians and nurse practitioners are available for consultation and management visits. Please give us a call for more information.
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