What is palliative care? 

Palliative care aims to relieve suffering and improve the quality of life of people who have a life-limiting illness.

You don't have to wait until the end of someone's life to start palliative care.

It can be provided in many different settings, including:

Hospice

Long-Term Care

Hospital

Community

Holistic care

The focus of hospice palliative care is to meet the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and their families.

Silhouette of person

Physical

Silhouette of two people

social

Cartoon heart

emotional

Hands in prayer

spiritual

“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival, but really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.”"

-Atul Gawande