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St Christopher's Hospice in
London, widely considered the first modern hospice
care is a type of
health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms, while attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of their life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering, providing an alternative to therapies focused on life-prolonging measures that may be arduous, likely to cause more symptoms, or are not aligned with a person's goals. The development of such end of life care balances the efforts of modern medicine to find ways to prolong life, regardless of the quality of life.
