What is Palliative Care?
Palliative care is medical care that focuses on relieving suffering--offering pain relief and improving quality of life for patients with serious life-altering illness, including patients who are approaching the end of their life. learn more.
This web site is designed to prepare families and caregivers for the important issues that palliative care helps to address in the face of life-altering disease… to help them know what to expect, how to offer support, and how to respond.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller
What Makes Hospice Different?
Hospice care addresses pain and other distressing symptoms so that a person may live as fully and comfortably as possible.
Hospice emphasizes quality rather than length of life. It neither hastens nor postpones death, affirming life and understanding that dying is a natural part of the life cycle.
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