Embracing the setting sun: provision of palliative care via a collaborative model between hospital and community for patients with intellectual disabilities.

Palliative care (PC) evolved from taking care of terminal cancer patients to modern concept of early integration into disease trajectories of patients with life limiting cancer and non-cancer diseases (1).

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