Palliative Care
More help is available to Nova Scotians facing an incurable illness. An increase in the amount of home support services palliative care patients can access will help them remain in their own homes in the last three months of their lives.
This increase is part of the province's Continuing Care Strategy.
Palliative care patients can now access about 200 hours of home-care services per month, for a total of 600 hours in the last three months of life. That is an increase of about 50 hours per month, or 150 hours over three months.