Palliative Care

Palliative care improves the quality of life of people living with serious or long-term illness. Our team helps with pain and symptom relief, emotional support, and practical guidance for families, right at home in Jalandhar.

Why it matters

Serious illness affects the whole family. Timely palliative support reduces suffering, brings clarity to decisions and lets patients spend more of their time at home.

What we do

• Pain and symptom management guidance
• Counselling for patients and families
• Home visits by trained caregivers
• Referral to hospitals and specialists

Palliative care is not only for the last days

Many families think palliative care means giving up. In truth it can begin at diagnosis and continue alongside regular treatment. Early support helps patients feel more comfortable, understand their options and make calm, informed decisions with their loved ones.

How Amrit Caregivers provides palliative care in Jalandhar

Our trained caregivers and volunteers visit patients at home, guide families on comfort care, help with hygiene, feeding, positioning and safe medicine routines, and offer a listening ear. We work together with your doctor and, when needed, help families connect with hospitals, hospices and specialists.

Emotional and spiritual support

Serious illness brings fear, sadness and difficult questions. Our team offers counselling and quiet company, and respects every family’s beliefs, language and wishes.

Support for family caregivers

Family members often give care day and night, and their own health suffers. We teach practical caregiving skills, share information and remind caregivers that their wellbeing matters too.

Symptoms and needs we help families manage

Families often ask us for help with pain, breathlessness, tiredness, poor appetite, sleep problems, skin care and low mood. Our caregivers teach simple comfort measures, remind families of the doctor’s advice and tell you when to call the doctor or go to hospital.

Working together with your doctor

We respect the treating doctor’s plan. Our team helps families follow medicine schedules, note changes and prepare questions for the next visit, so that care at home and care in the hospital stay connected.

Tips for family caregivers

Keep medicines and reports in one place, note symptoms in a small diary, ask for help before you are exhausted and take short breaks. Small routines bring calm to the day. Our trained caregivers can show you safe ways to help with bathing, feeding and moving.

Dignity, privacy and respect

Every person we serve is treated with respect for their privacy, culture, language and faith. Decisions stay with the patient and the family, and we support them with information and kindness.

Why your donation matters

Access to palliative care is still limited in India, especially outside big cities, and many families cannot afford long-term care. Donations help us train caregivers, visit patients at home, provide comfort support and stand beside families in need.

Our palliative care services

• Home visits by trained palliative caregivers
• Guidance on pain and symptom care, together with your doctor
• Help with bathing, feeding, positioning and hygiene
• Counselling for patients and families
• Training for family caregivers
• Coordination with hospitals and specialists
• Bereavement support

Note: our team supports, and does not replace, your doctor’s treatment and advice.

Frequently asked questions