Comfort Therapy - Enhance Well-Being

Comfort Therapy focuses on providing soothing and relaxing experiences to promote physical and emotional comfort.

Comfort Therapy FAQ

What is comfort treatment?

Comfort treatment is often provided as part of a medical speciality called Palliative Care. Doctors and nurses who work in palliative care are experts in looking after symptoms and providing positive experiences for children and adults who have illnesses that can't be cured and that may lead them to their death.

What is comfort care?

Comfort care may also include providing emotional or spiritual support. Comfort care involves a multidisciplinary team of providers who work together to ease symptoms of a serious, complex, or terminal illness. The care may be provided at one's home or in a hospital, specialized nursing facility, or long-term care facility (like a nursing home).

How long does comfort care last?

Comfort care generally lasts for as long as you have a serious illness, until you enter hospice care, or until you no longer need comfort care. Comfort care is not limited to a specific medical condition (although coverage and benefits can vary). Conditions for which comfort care may be needed include: When Is It Time for Comfort Care?

Is comfort care a part of hospice care?

Comfort care is a part of hospice care, but hospice care is much more. Hospice care is an interdisciplinary team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient’s and family/inner circle’s wishes and needs. It can be provided in any setting.

What are the different types of comfort treatments?

Pain-medicines like morphine or paracetamol are a type of comfort treatment. There are different comfort treatments. Some are medicines, like paracetamol or morphine. Other medicines stop someone from feeling sick or vomiting. Other comfort medicines ease muscle tension or spasms, or help the patient to sleep.

How does information comfort patients?

Information also comforts by promoting trust and confidence in staff and the care provided. However, informing patients is an art and science; to comfort (and not distress), information needs to be provided by staff knowledgeable in the topic and sensitive to patients’ situation and personal preference for detail.

Why is comfort important after therapeutic interventions?

Enhanced comfort after therapeutic interventions may increase hope and confidence and facilitate healing, rehabilitation and dying peacefully [ 4, 5, 7 ]. Comfort, however, is a complex concept that is difficult to define, operationalise and evaluate.