The goal of palliative care is to alleviate pain and to help control symptoms, providing comfort, so that patients maintain the highest possible quality of life.

Palliative care can help patients who are diagnosed with such conditions as advanced heart disease, cancer, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, ALS or multiple sclerosis.

The goal is to ease the burden of symptoms caused by disease or other treatments, such as pain, nausea and breathlessness. Palliative Care can take place along side treatments that have cure and recovery as their goal. It is appropriate at any stage of a serious illness.