Question

what is the difference between hospice care and palliative care give references materials to support you answers.

Answer 1

Hospice care is a form of health care that always considering about the palliative care of a terminally ill patient's disease condition , pain and symptoms and also making sure that their spiritual and emotional needs are met at the last moments of th eir life. Hospice care are always focusing and con sidering on the increasing of quality of life by reducing pain and suffering and also ensuring the comfort.

Palliative care is a sort of approach towards the sick individual so that to improve the quality of life of the sick indibidual or the patients who are seriously ill and also considering their families to copup with the problem associated with life-threatening illness of the family member. Palliation focusses on assessment and treatment of pain and other physical problems, psychosocial issues and spiritual matters.

HOSPICE CARE

PALLIATIVE CARE

1● care is provided to patients with terminal illness or nontreatable illness which fewer than 6 months to live in the normal course of the disease. 2● Hospice is mainly based on comfortable care without any intention of curing a patient. 3●provided care at patients home setting or at a nursing home. 4● care to be provided at the stage in life is end of life 5● care to patients who have a life expectancy will be less than 6 months 6● Aim of the care is to provide comfort care and support for terminally ill 7● care giver is nurse/ family members 8● Payment done by medicare or by the government 9● Diagnosis is terminal

1●caring a patient with chronic or severe life threatening diseases.    2● palliative care always focuses on patients comfort and care with or without providing any interventions for curative purpose. 3●care provided to patient in an institution facility which has advanced facilities to take care the individuals issues 4.● care to be provided at any stage of illness. 5.●Care of patient is provided as long as necessary 6● Aim of the care is to provide relief from discomfort, symptoms and the major stress of seriouss illness 7● care giver is physician/ nurse/ family members 8● payment done by private insyrance or by patient itself 9● diagnosis is terminal with estimated date of death