Pain is not objective or seen or felt by anyone other than the person experiencing it. Pain is subjective, so there is no way to distinguish whether someone is in pain or not, and the only and best measurement of pain is what the patient says it is. In settings such as end-of-life care, patients present with many different disease processes and are ultimately there because they have an average of six months to live. Along with this phase of their life, palliative care patients may encounter a myriad of symptoms, which can lead these patients to experience enormous physical and psychological suffering (Creedon & O'Regan, 2010, p. [257]) . For patients requiring palliative care, pain is the most disabling symptom and, in turn, ongoing pain is the main symptom most feared by these patients. So why hasn't pain management become the top priority when it comes to end-of-life care, considering this area is growing at an extraordinary rate due to an increasingly aging population? Pain management is very important when dealing with palliative care patients, considering that 55-95% of this patient population requires analgesia to relieve pain (Creedon & O'Regan, 2010, p. [257] ). But what is meant by pain management? And why does pain continue to be treated inadequately? According to the article Chronic Noncancer Pain in the Elderly: Evidence for Prescribing, significant improvements have been made to pain management in palliative care in recent decades. However, it is universally recognized that pain on a global scale remains inadequately treated for cultural, attitudinal, educational, legal and systemic reasons (Creedon & O'Regan, 2010, p. ...... half of the document .. ... .reducing suffering. Works Cited Creedon, R., & O'Regan, P. (2010, Pain control and nursing prescribing, Prescribing, 8(6), 257-264. Ferrell,. B., Levy, MH, & Paice, J. (2008). Management of advanced cancer pain in the context of palliative care, 12(4), 575-581 bereavement (7th ed., pp. 197-201: Wadsworth, Cengage Learing. McHugh, M., Miller-Saultz, D., Wuhrman, E., & Kosharskyy, B. (2012). in palliative care patient, International Journal of Palliative Care, S 36-8: 10.4103/0973-1075.76240