Palliative Care Messaging Tools for Hawaiʻi

Benefits of Palliative Care – Talking Points

Palliative Care gives extra support in your home from a caring team, that helps you get:

  1. More days comfortably at home with family and less visits to the hospital
  2. Less stress and burden on family, caregivers and loved ones
  3. Someone to call 24/7 if there’s a problem
  4. Managing symptoms of your illness such as pain, shortness of breath and nausea
  5. Explaining care and treatment options to patients and loved ones
  6. Referrals to other resources

Palliative Care Stories for Hawaiʻi

Since 2021, Kōkua Mau’s Palliative Care Awareness Committee has been working to better understand palliative care in Hawaiʻi and how to educate both providers and the public. We since developed materials and messaging for both providers and the public.

This page focuses on the public, as we see there continues to be a lot of confusion about what palliative care is and the opportunity it presents. We hope these two Hawaiʻi stories illustrate the importance and benefit of palliative care. Feel free to use them. Please share you feedback if make use of it.


  • Download the Hawaiʻi stories as a PDF file