Home is where most people want to be, surrounded by their near and dear ones, when their disease is no longer curable and the end of life approaches. The CanSupport home care teams make this possible by visiting and caring for patients in their own homes and providing much needed back-up to the families. In keeping with the focus of palliative care, the objective is to place people with cancer and their families at the centre of care and treat them in a holistic manner, catering to all their needs. The multi-disciplinary nature of each team makes it possible to address all the aspects of pain that define human existence– physical, emotional and spiritual. As the majority of our patients have limited financial means, providing medicines, nutritional supplements, specialised equipment, and on occasion, food rations also meets a real need. The specialised expertise of the team in palliative care offers the patient relief from pain and other distressing symptoms along with appropriate nursing care and advice. Family members are trained in simple nursing tasks so that they can keep the patient comfortable until the team’s next visit. These home visits also provide an opportunity to the patients and members of their families to express their feelings, to ask questions and to prepare for what lies ahead. Those who are particularly anxious or in need of extra emotional support are helped by our trained counsellors to cope with their psychological pain. Discussion with the team allows the family to make informed and appropriate choices as the disease progresses and the end draws near. This support continues even after the patient dies, in the form of bereavement support for the family.