Palliative medicine is an area of medicine characterized by person-centred care. It focuses on physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspects in health and disease. Psychiatric/psychological aspects are crucial components because there is a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders in palliative medicine. Among the most common are: anxiety and depressive disorders, adjustment disorders, delirium and other cognitive disorders. Unfortunately, those disorders are often left unrecognized and untreated. This is the reason why a psychiatrist/psychologist has to be a member of any interdisciplinary team. The psychiatrist works with patients whose psychological needs are more complex by applying an integrative approach, in terms of a combination of psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy and socio-therapeutic interventions, but also has a role in addressing ethical, spiritual, social and legal issues. Also, psychiatrist must consider the family of the patient as a unit in a need of care. A psychiatrist may be involved in a variety of organizational forms of palliative care. Thus, he can be a member of a mobile team, whose task is to help and support patients suffering from incurable progressive diseases that lead to the death of the patient. Since palliative care should be available to all patients with life-threatening diseases, special attention is paid to vulnerable groups such as children, war veterans, people with dementia, etc. The need for specific palliative care targeted at these groups is recognized and highlighted in „Nacionalni program razvoja palijativne skrbi u Hrvatskoj 2017. – 2020.“