The hospice care is known as palliative care. Palliative care is defined to be a medical specialty to focus on the symptoms, illness, and improving their last days. The hospice started in Great Britain in the 1960s and merged in the United States. The organization is funded by Medicaid or their own private insurance. Hospice care usually takes place in the patient’s home. Hospice is a now a service where patients can be as comfortable as possible in their last days of life. The reason hospice care is considered is to reduce the depression and pain for the patients to have a longer life expectancy. Another important reason for hospice is the hospice admissions and emergency visits decrease. When a patient is in the hospice program they are surrounded with their loved ones and continuously receiving care for 24 hours /7days a week. The care is offered weekdays, weekends, and including holidays. The patients always have access to their caregiver/caretaker whenever they are needed. Hospice care is for people that cannot do much for themselves or their family. People who have cancer use the program more because of the chemotherapy. When a patient joins the hospice care it is when they have at least six months or less to live. Hospice can be rendered in hospitals, nursing homes, or other health care facilities. Most people choose to be at their home where they are familiar and comfortable. Hospice care focuses on everything with the patient. For example: physical, emotional, and spiritual. The program gives the family books and guides to help them through the process. The guides tell you the symptoms that they are going through and what to expect. If the family has a problem they cannot call 911. They will have to call the hospice program and if they do not do so they will be kicked out of it. The caregiver makes many visits to assistance with checking the vitals, medicine, and food plan. If the patient needs additional help like with