Hospice care provides unrestricted time frames for service delivery and focuses on aggressive disease management.

Palliative care can be provided alongside curative treatments and does not have a strict life expectancy requirement.

Palliative care is only appropriate when curative treatments have been stopped and the patient is imminently dying.

Hospice care requires that the patient has a life expectancy of six months or less and focuses solely on comfort care without curative treatment.