Hospice and palliative care are easily confused because, while everything within hospice is palliative, not everything palliative is hospice. Hospice care focuses on a person's last six months (or less) of life. When it is determined that a cure is no longer an option, the hospice care team comes in to make the patient's remaining life as comfortable as possible by addressing physical symptoms and distress as well as emotional and spiritual issues. Palliative care, while also aiming to manage symptoms and enhance comfort and quality of life for patients, can be delivered concurrently with aggressive therapies and therapies that are aimed at cure. It can be delivered at any stage of life.