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Palliative Care
On Living Well:
The Life-Transforming Power
of Palliative Care
BY LES C. MEYER, MBA
A
ngela has been working since she was
15 years old, climbing the corporate
ladder to a rewarding position as an
accountant. She built a brand-new house and
was thrilled to plan her upcoming wedding. But
then her life went sideways. Angela developed
a multitude of autoimmune disorders, including
lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and
Raynaud's phenomenon. As a result, she was
forced to quit her job and lost her home. "I
felt all alone," Angela recalls. "No one truly
understood what I was going through ...while I
was discovering more and more what was wrong
with me."
As her physical symptoms worsened, so did
Angela's emotional state. "I went into a really
bad depression," she says. "The pain and being
sick, and the stress and everything, just brought
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me down-lower than ever before." But thanks
to palliative care, she's now among a growing
number of chronically ill Americans who have
found a way of living better with illness.
Palliative care involves specialized medical
treatment for people with serious illnesses,
providing relief from symptoms, pain and
stress. This modality is appropriate at any age,
for any diagnosis, at any stage of a serious
illness and provided alongside curative and
life-prolonging treatments. The goal is to
improve the quality of life for both patients and
family members who can become stressed from
caregiving responsibilities.
Angela's palliative care team at Ohio
State University quickly realized she needed
a full spectrum of support to live as well as
possible with her illnesses. The objective was
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016
Patient-Centered Care
Association News
CMSA Corpo rate Partners
On Living Well: The Life-Transforming Power of Palliative Care
Improving Medications Access for Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
Breaking Down Silos & Strengthening Hospital Care Coordination
Cultivating the Art and Science of Compassionate Care
Index of Advertisers
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CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - Patient-Centered Care
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CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - Association News
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CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - CMSA Corpo rate Partners
CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - On Living Well: The Life-Transforming Power of Palliative Care
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CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - Improving Medications Access for Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
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CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - Breaking Down Silos & Strengthening Hospital Care Coordination
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CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - Cultivating the Art and Science of Compassionate Care
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CMSA Today - Issue 6, 2016 - Index of Advertisers
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