The focus of palliative care is to enable you to have a good quality of life based around your choices and wishes, whilst remaining as independent and active as possible in the time you have left. Palliative care involves managing physical symptoms, such as pain and providing emotional, spiritual and psychological support. A life-limiting illness is one that cannot be cured and that you are likely to die from and includes illnesses like advanced cancer, motor neuron disease (MND) and advanced stage dementia.