Ashok Healthcare · Yeshwanthpur, Bengaluru
When someone is living with a serious illness, comfort matters as much as treatment. Ashok Healthcare provides palliative nursing at home in Bangalore, working with the patient's doctor or palliative care team to ease symptoms, keep the person clean and comfortable, and support the family.
Palliative care is care that focuses on relieving pain, breathlessness and other distressing symptoms, and on the person's comfort and dignity, for anyone living with a serious or life-limiting illness. It can be given alongside treatment, not only at the end of life. At home, it is delivered by nurses following the plan made by the patient's doctor or palliative care team.
People often think of palliative care only in the last days of life. In practice, it can help at many stages of illnesses such as advanced cancer, heart failure, lung disease, kidney failure, stroke and neurological conditions. The focus is on how the person feels each day: whether they are in pain, whether they can breathe comfortably, whether they are clean, rested and not alone.
Many patients prefer to be at home, among familiar people and surroundings. Our nurses make that possible by taking on the physical care, the medicines and the observations, so that family members can spend their time simply being with their loved one.
Care is coordinated with the patient's doctor or palliative care team.
All medicines, including pain relief, are prescribed by the patient's doctor or palliative care physician. Our nurses give medicines as prescribed, record each dose and observe how well it works, so the doctor can adjust the plan. Nurses do not change doses on their own. If you do not yet have a palliative care doctor, ask your treating hospital for a referral.
We provide palliative nursing from our Yeshwanthpur base to homes in Malleshwaram, Rajajinagar, Hebbal, Mathikere, Sadashivanagar and other parts of North and West Bangalore. Call to check availability elsewhere.
No. Palliative care can begin at any stage of a serious illness and can run alongside other treatment. Its aim is comfort and quality of life.
Hospice care is palliative care for people in the final stage of life. Palliative care is broader and can be given earlier, together with treatment.
Often yes, when a doctor prescribes and reviews the pain plan and a nurse gives the medicines on time and reports how well they work.
Our nurses work with the patient's own doctor or palliative care team.
Yes. We assign nurses experienced in tube feeding, tracheostomy care and suctioning.
Yes, through a live-in nurse or two 12-hour shifts, depending on how much active care is needed at night.
Absolutely. Many families want to help, and the nurse can show you safe ways to do so.
The nurse will contact the doctor and follow the plan agreed in advance. Discuss with the doctor ahead of time what you would want to happen in an emergency.
The cost depends on the nursing hours and any equipment required. We share the details after the assessment.
If you are caring for someone with a serious illness, you do not have to manage alone. Call us to talk through what would help.
This page provides general information and does not replace the advice of the patient's doctor or palliative care team. All medicines are given only as prescribed. In an emergency, call 108 or contact the treating doctor immediately.