Palliative care is a way of caring for people who are living with a terminal illness.
Care is based on providing physical, emotional and spiritual support for patients, and support to patients' families and friends. Care can be provided in hospital or in the person's own home. People who have cancer and other illnesses which cannot be cured. At the Hollywood Private Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Veterans, War Widows, private and public patients may all receive care. A medical referral is required.