Home Based Palliative Care

The Program CanSupport Home Based Palliative Care Program is a pioneering model directed at patients suffering from advanced and terminal cancer. It is the largest of its kind in the country and has been replicated in various states in collaboration with State Governments.

The Model has also earned CanSupport the World Health Organization Public Champion Award in 2017 among many others honours. The program makes the most practical and economic sense, especially for the underprivileged, saving huge sums otherwise spent in pursuit of unrealistic goals and unnecessary critical care costs.

Its goals are extremely concrete: skilled pain and symptom management, supportive nursing care, psychological and spiritual care and a support system to sustain the individual’s family as well as bereavement support and counselling.

Professional multidisciplinary teams of doctors, nurses, counsellors and physiotherapists regularly visit patients registered with them in their homes, offering:

Factual Information to demystify patient’s illness and its like course in clear and understandable terms for informed decision making around goals of care.
Pain and symptom management aimed at maximising comfort and quality of life.
Physical therapy and rehabilitation in optimising functioning ability, maintaining or regaining physical independence and preserve the patient’s autonomy.
Comprehensive nursing care.
Guidance and equipment support to achieve control and dignity in day-to-day activities.
Empower and equip family caregivers in caring for their loved ones effectively at home.
Psychological, emotional and spiritual support for both patients and families.
Loss, Grief and bereavement counselling.
Mobilising financial and practical resources through networking with government and civil society organisations
Socio-economic rehabilitative support for destitute families

The unique approach and impact of the Home Care Program led to CanSupport receiving the prestigious ‘Public Health Champion’ award conferred by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017.