Guiding Wishes’ services are built on the foundation of palliative care, a specialized form of medical care that focuses on reducing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering and improving quality of life for patients affected by serious, life-limiting, or life-threatening illness, as well as their families.

Palliative care is appropriate for patients at any age, at any stage of illness, and can be provided alongside curative treatments, such as chemotherapy. For patients in the advanced stages of illness, palliative care helps ensure comfort by providing expert pain and symptom management and psychosocial support.