Palliative Care is supportive care for people with advanced illnesses. The focus of palliative care is to ease the suffering that results from illness. Palliative care provides treatment for symptoms even when the underlying disease cannot be cured. The main goals are to relieve pain and other discomfort and to reduce stress. Palliative care also provides information to help a patient live with serious physical illness. Palliative care differs from hospice care in that the patient does not always have a terminal diagnosis.