Palliative care does not limit pursuing disease-directed therapies and can be received by patients who are not actively dying.

“palliative care is simply the interdisciplinary pursuit of the quality of life within the context of serious illness palliative care is that mode of care which helps you feel as well as possible emotionally physically spiritually you name it my job is to help you deal with the facts of your life and to feel as well as you can there is nothing in the definition account of care that makes it that you need to be dying anytime soon time is not mentioned there is death is included in this but it's not the focus it's simply the pursuit of quality of life”

“Paliative care is a medical specialty usually provided by a team for folks with a serious illness.”

“with paliotative care generally there's no limitation around um any disease directed that are modifying therapies you might be um pursuing. Um, and you don't have to be dying inherently um or even clear that you're facing death.”

“Um palative care is a medical specialty usually provided by a team for folks with a serious illness. Um serious illness can be defined lots of ways and is defined differently in different health systems uh kind of depending on how they're staffed and how their pal of care programs are kind of created to function what what purposes they're serving but um some of the and BJ you jump in at any points but uh some of the big differences is that um with paliative care generally there's no limitation around um any disease directed or modified dying therapies you might be uh pursuing um and you don't have to be dying inherently um or even clear that you're facing death.”