Is comfort care and palliative care the same?

Care given to a terminally ill patient which focuses on the individuals comfort and quaity of life.Life expectancy is usually six months or less.

Curative care is directed at healing or curing a disease....like taking an antibiotic for a bladder infection, or Vitamin C if you have scurvy. Palliative care involves offering care that helps...

Palliative care treats the symptom but does not cure. Instead, the cure comes from the body healing itself. Antonyms are ameliorative care or interventional care, where the treatment is the cure.

"Curative" means "to have an aim of curing". Said of patients who will recover. "Palliative" means "to have an aim of comforting". Patients in paillative care are in extremis, and not expected to...

yes, no matter what the hamster is you can always use the same cage wire, plastic, or aquarium