Palliative care is the active total care of patients at a time when their disease is no longer responsive to curative treatment and when life expectancy is relatively limited.

Our philosophy is based on the following principles:

That palliative care

• Respects the patients wishes
• Is a team approach composed of both professional staff and trained volunteers
• Aims to provide relief for patients from pain and other distressing symptoms
• Offers a support system to help the patient live as actively and creatively as possible until death
• Integrates psychological and spiritual care for patients, so that they may come to terms with their own death as fully and constructively as they can
• Helps the family cope during the patient's illness and in bereavement
• Affirms life and regards death as a normal process; it seeks neither to hasten nor to postpone death.