Palliative and Hospice care are similar – but knowing the differences is important.

Join Coastal Hospice on Thursday, January 28th
at 4:00 pm on Facebook Live
to hear from Karen Bailey,
Social Worker on our Palliative Care team.
Click here to RSVP for reminders.

Karen will provide an overview of Palliative Care and the differences between it and Hospice. 
Find out more here. 

Palliative 
Focuses on providing patients with relief from symptoms, pain & stress of illness
Available any time during a serious illness
Services available during curative treatment
Services typically in a hospital setting

Hospice 
Comfort care at end of life
Prognosis of six months or less
Excludes curative treatment
Services provided at the patient's home

Both
Comfort care
Improve quality of life
Emotional, physical and spiritual support