Palliative Care vs. Hospice Care

Palliative care:

Palliative care is the umbrella term for symptom and case management for those with a terminal diagnosis regardless of their prognosis.
Care begins after diagnosis and during treatment.
Palliative care provides active disease-directed treatment and symptom management.

Hospice:

Hospice is specifically end-of-life care when the patient has less than 6 months to live.
It is the final stage of palliative care.
The only goal of hospice is comfort care to make the patient as comfortable as possible in the final stages of life.

The goal of hospice is to provide care for the patient to be as comfortable as possible and provide support to the care circle during the final stages of life