Definition and Aims
of palliative Care

Palliative Care ...

• Shifts the emphasis of health care from just curing to a more dedicated focus on the improvement in quality of life for the patient
• Offers a support system to help families cope during the patient's illness and in their own eventual bereavement
• Affirms life and regards dying as a normal process in the cycle of life
• Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms
• Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care
• Provides any support that may help the patient live an active life as much as desired and possible
• Intends neither to hasten nor postpone death
  
  

In this sense I have committed myself to this task with empathy and commitment.