Palliative care
Palliative care is care for people approaching the end of life.  It is designed to improve the quality of their life. It is not only for people near the end of life, but for people with problems that are not thought to be curable.  According to the World Health Organization it should include the treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual.   Treatment that is designed to cure people may be unpleasant and often neglects problems which are not medical.