The demand on the palliative care sector will rise and continue to intensify as the population ages world-wide. Many palliative care programs have shifted their emphasis to ambulatory and home-based care services to provide effective community- and team-based multidisciplinary care to individuals dying at home. Delivering care in this environment serves a dual purpose of potentially increasing the quality of life for palliative care patients, and reducing public health service expenditures related to in-patient utilization. However, the viability of this setting for care involves sharing end-of-life care costs with patients and families and relies greatly on family members or close friends to provide the majority of care [1-4]. Current research demonstrates that many caregivers of palliative care patients miss time from the labor market because of their intense caregiving responsibilities in the home setting. This absence from employment has short and long term economic consequences for the caregiver as well as the labor force and society as a whole.