A short YouTube video (speaker: David Kessler) that defines palliative care as care focused on comfort rather than cure and explains settings where it is provided (hospice and hospital-based palliative care programs). The clip notes that palliative care can be provided alongside hospice and that hospital programs offer symptom management and emotional support during hospitalization.
What is palliative care? Palliative care is a way of providing care that's geared to comfort, not cure. And palliative care can be provided in a number of settings. Palliative care can be provided along with hospice care, and most hospice care is palliative in nature. But many hospitals these days also have palliative care programs. And in a palliative care program in a hospital, they will provide additional resources in terms of symptom management, emotional support for you while you're hospitalized.
