Benefit of Supportive and Palliative Care

• Improve quality of life, interpersonal relationships and survival rates.
• Relieves pain and other distressing symptoms
• Prevents unnecessary investigations, hospitalization, use of drugs / procedures, their side effects and complications.
• Saves valuable resources
• Helps in developing positive attitude and accepting the normal course of illness and its progression.
• Makes them understanding that with will power, they can work consciously and actively to live a symptom free, comfortable, independent and dignified life.
• Relieves suffering of family members and care givers and prepares them for bereavement.