Palliative care provides holistic, person-centred care by managing symptoms, preventing suffering by treating pain and other problems, and providing physical, psychosocial and spiritual support (Chaplin, 2004; Grocott and Gray, 2010; Dale and Emmons, 2014). Palliative wound care should focus upon relieving wound-related suffering and improving the quality of life of patients and their families when facing life-threatening illness (Grocott and Gray, 2010; Dale and Emmons, 2014). Patients requiring palliative wound care can present with any type of wound, particularly those common in older people, such as venous leg ulcers (VLUs), pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers and malignant wounds … read more