Geriatric Palliative Care

The aims of palliative care at the end of life are largely the relief of pain and suffering. Palliative care is not limited to end-of-life care but strives to relieve suffering at all stages of disease. Hospice focuses attention on comfort care. Palliative care must be able to provide a wide range of services and embrace the need of patients from independent to those with multiple comorbidities, frailty and drawn-out dying. Clinicians often encounter an array of ethical issues relating to palliative care and end-of-life care, such as ethically intricate decision-making, patients’ wishes regarding treatment and quality of life.