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Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical care for people with life-limiting illnesses.

It focuses on providing people with relief from the symptoms, pain, physical stress, and mental stress of the terminal diagnosis.

The goal of such therapy is to improve quality of life for both the person and their family.

Evidence as of 2016 supports improvement in quality of life.

VITAS Healthcare is the largest provider of hospice care in the United States.

VITAS Healthcare operates 44 hospice programs in 15 states and employs 11,669 professionals, according to the company's website.

Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs.

In Western society, the concept of hospice has been evolving in Europe since the 11th century.

Then, and for centuries thereafter in Roman Catholic tradition, hospices were places of hospitality for the sick, wounded, or dying, as well as those for travelers and pilgrims.

The modern concept of hospice includes palliative care for the incurably ill given in such institutions as hospitals or nursing homes, but also care provided to those who would rather spend their last months and days of life in their own homes.The first modern hospice care was created by Cicely Saunders in 1967.

Terminal illness is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and that is reasonably expected to result in the death of the patient within a short period of time.

This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer or advanced heart disease than for trauma.

In popular use, it indicates a disease that will soon progress until death with near absolute certainty, regardless of treatment.

In medicine, nursing and the allied health professions, end-of-life care (or EoLC) refers to health care, not only of patients in the final hours or days of their lives, but more broadly care of all those with a terminal illness or terminal condition that has become advanced, progressive and incurable.