Online journal articles are a specialized form of electronic document: they have the purpose of providing material for academic research and study, and they are formatted approximately like journal articles in traditional printed journals. End-of-life care refers to health care for a person with a terminal condition that has become advanced, progressive, and/or incurable. End-of-life care attends not just to the physical but also the psychosocial and spiritual concerns of patients and their families and extends into the bereavement period. End-of-life care is that the term used to describe the support and medical aid given during the time surrounding the death. It is publishing original peer-reviewed research articles within the clinical, scientific, ethical, and policy issues, local and international, regarding all aspects of hospice and palliative look after the dying and for those with profound suffering associated with chronic illness.