When someone is terminal ill, they may be cared for in hospital, they may be at home with home based care, or they may spend some time in a hospice. The aim of hospice care is to provide the best possible quality of life, and to relieve pain and other symptoms during the final days of a person’s life, at a time when the underlying disease can no longer be treated or cured. Hospice care is a philosophy of care which has been described as follows