Hospice and palliative both type of care hold special place in the lives of ill people. Hospice is a kind of care meant to offer comfort and relaxation to the critically ill patients. Those patients who do not hold any hope remaining for surviving are offered with hospice care in which the house facilities are being provided to such patients. The patients, who need whole day intensive care, are provided with nurses to offer adequate services to them. Contrasting Hospice, palliative care is rather for the patients who are generally ill including curable and prolonged ailments. The people who are near to death are also offered with this care.

Palliative care can be explained as multidisciplinary methodology to offer complete care to the patients. In this approach paying complete attention to physical, emotional, spiritual and social health of the patients is the major concern. This enables the ill people to feel better internally and recover with faster pace. In this approach medical as well as non-medical personnel such as doctors, pharmacologists, nurses, priests, social workers and psychologists are engaged to deal with the problems of suffering patients. This explains that as compare to Hospice, palliativecare has wide approach as it deals with vaster section of patients.

Though, the central purpose of both the Hospice & palliative care is to offer emotional boost and comfort to the people who are suffering. At the same time complete ease is offered to the families of the patients. It is a challenging process and requires a lot of efforts to get successfully completed. In the case of palliative care, there are still some chances to see the patient getting recovered in some cases, whereas in Hospice generally the people heading towards death are taken care of. In palliative care generally calculation of the symptoms is followed by the Symptom controlling and dealing with suffering. This program is designed to offer better cure and care to the people suffering through ailments.

Glancing at the previous cases for Hospice & palliative care programs the results are positive. Both the programs have successfully enables the patients with comfort and adequate care. The palliative care programs have successfully achieved the targets of curing the health of patients and increasing their lives. With the development in technology more advancement are being added to these sections in order to offer appropriate as well as intensive care to the patients as per their requirements.