In the broadest sense, Palliative Care is medical care provided with a greater focus on comfort than cure.
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization defines Palliative Care as “…patient and family-centered care that optimizes quality of life by anticipating, preventing, and treating suffering. Palliative care throughout the continuum of illness involves addressing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs and to facilitate patient autonomy, access to information, and choice.”