The Cascais Compassiva Project is run by the Oficina da Compaixão Association and aims to create community care networks that are sensitised, informed and trained to ensure compassionate, collaborative, safe and effective care in the physical, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions for people with advanced chronic illness and/or at the end of their lives and their families, raising the sense of compassion as an integral part of the community's identity. Thus, caring for people at the end of life implies meeting all their needs, relieving all kinds of suffering, and should be the responsibility of everyone as a community, not just the social and health services. This is the basis of Compassionate Communities and the starting point for the work of Oficina da Compaixão.