Palliative Support Team

Patients who are terminally ill and their loved ones can call on the Palliative Support Team.

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What can we help you with?

When treatments aimed at healing are no longer possible, the Palliative Support Team looks for the most optimal care. Together we discuss exactly what this care can entail. We strive for the best possible physical care, optimal pain and symptom control with much attention to your emotional experience.  

The Palliative Support Team supports you and your loved ones in the process of loss experiences: loss of health, work status, partner role and/or role in the family, changes in appearance, financial consequences, reduction of the circle of friends, ... During the counseling we spend extra attention to the children involved.

The team can also provide support in important ethical decisions. Ethical questions concerning the approaching end of life such as stopping treatments, palliative sedation and euthanasia can be discussed. We can also offer support in drafting living wills.

Home care

The Palliative Support Team works closely with palliative home care teams to allow end-of-life care to be provided in the most desired and appropriate place. To ensure a seamless transition of care upon hospital discharge, the team actively collaborates with several organizations:

  • General home care services such as the GP, home nursing, family support,
  • Pallion: Palliatieve Limburgse Ondersteuningsequipe (Palliative Support Team Limburg)
  • Panal: Palliatief Netwerk Arrondissement Leuven (Palliative Network Arrondissement Leuven)

Palliative Unit

The hospital itself does not have a palliative unit but collaborates with other nearby hospitals.

Declarations of intent

In Belgium, there are five types of declarations of intent you can prepare beforehand. This allows healthcare providers to consider the patient's wishes later when they are no longer able to express themselves.

More and more people want to have their affairs in order. Often, this is because they have witnessed someone close to them die in a way that they themselves would definitely want to avoid. This initiates the search for declarations of intent.

Numerous versions of such declarations of intent are offered on the internet. However, many of these well-intentioned documents turn out to be legally invalid. People do not know which are reliable and which are not.

Consequently, LEIF has compiled a very user-friendly brochure containing 'the correct advance directives'.

In this way, you can engage in advance care planning, preferably in consultation with an expert healthcare provider. Drafting these declarations of intent is a dynamic (thinking) process in itself. By doing this together with a healthcare provider, they better understand what treatments you may or may not want to undergo later. The Palliative Support Team is happy to make time for this. Of course, you can always adjust or even revoke your declarations of intent later, depending on current circumstances.

The team

Based on the needs that your specific situation requires, the necessary staff will be involved.

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