Palliative care emerged after hospice care to provide supportive care earlier in serious illness, outside of hospice restrictions like a six-month prognosis.

“So I'm trying to kind of and one other point to make there is while pal of care is the larger umbrella hospice is the older one. So we started in this country with hospice and since the 1982 when Medicare got in the business we had those restrictions and then people in the n 80s and 90s realized like why are we waiting till the final weeks and months of life to deliver this kind of loving care and so the p of care was born as a younger bigger sibling to encomp to get outside of those restrictions.”