**1. Introduction**

In today's world, non-communicable diseases like cancer, dementia, renal failure etc. are increasing in leaps and bounds. They need long term care for their chronic condition [1]. It has been estimated that around 1.5 billion people experience chronic pain round the world, and an estimated 61 million people endure unrelieved serious health-related suffering globally [1–3]. Many of them result in increasing morbidity making patients critically ill. Death is inevitable, but, today's era is giving more importance to the quality of life lived than its longevity [4]. Here comes the role of palliative care, which helps improve the quality of one's life especially in his last days and tries to decrease the burden of the disease. World Health Organization (WHO) has defined Palliative care as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families experiencing problems related to life-threatening disease [5]. It is provided through the prevention, assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems.

In general, palliative care mostly functions in hospitals where the patient is admitted or may be in day care basis, where the patient needs to pay a visit to the hospital on regular basis for some procedures or sessions that help in alleviating their pain and other symptoms. Palliative care should be an admixture with the curative form of treatment which should begin from the early part of patient

management. The patient, especially in his end stage of life, is happy to be with his near and dear ones, in his known home environment. This has built up the foundation of the concept of Home based palliative care (Home PAL) [6].
