Palliative Care is specialized medical care for people living with a serious chronic illness. Patients in palliative care may receive medical care for their symptoms, or palliative care, along with treatment intended to cure their serious illness.
Hospice is a philosophy of care. It treats the patient rather than the disease and focuses on quality of life. It surrounds the patient and family with a team of professionals who not only address physical distress, but emotional and spiritual distress…
Both Palliative Care and Hospice Care are focused on the needs of the patient and their quality of life. Palliative care focuses on patients seeking curative treatments for their current chronic conditions. Hospice care provides care for those individuals given less than 6 months to live if their current disease process progresses at its natural trajectory.