Palliative and end-of-life care is for anyone with a serious chronic disease or life-limiting illness. ​People often live for many years with 1 or more chronic diseases. Palliative care gives extra support at all stages of a chronic illness, not just near the end of life. Your palliative and end-of-life care team works with your family doctor and specialists as you're being treated for chronic illness. Palliative care provides many services to help you and your family live a more settled and comfortable life.

Living with a chronic illness can be harder some days than others. You may need to be in the hospital for a short time now and then. Sometimes medicines can help treat a chronic illness, and sometimes other therapies are a better choice. The palliative and end-of-life care team can help you look at your options. They wi​ll focus on your comfort, no matter what health problems your illness may cause. Your palliative care teams help you:

• treat symptoms using medicines and other therapies
• feel more positive
• deal with fears and anxiety
• make sure all caregivers know what you want and need
• see what community supports are available to you
• explore your care options and how the healthcare system works

Learn more about some of the issues that people with chronic diseases face, and how palliative and end-of- life care can help.
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Learn more about some of the issues that people with chronic diseases face, and how palliative and end-of-life care can help.

• Nervous system disease​
  
• Heart disease
  
• Lung disease​​
  
• Kidney disease​​
  
• Liver disease​​
  
• Autoimmune disease​​
  
• Blood disease​​
  
• Dementia​​​
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