About hospices and Palliative Care
Palliate
– "to alleviate without curing"
Palliative
care concentrates on alleviating symptoms with the knowledge that there is no cure. It is an approach that improves the quality
of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-limiting illness through the prevention and
alleviation of suffering by early identification, assessment and treatment of pain and other problems - physical, psychosocial
and spiritual
One Treetops’ patient describes this as "taking a day at a time
and coping with it." She said it could be a different issue that is faced each day. 
