Hospice Care relieves physical and emotional suffering by assisting and supporting the patient and family as they face the final phase of a terminal illness. This is called palliative care. There is nothing more that can be done to cure the disease or restore health, but there is much more to improve the quality of the time remaining. At Family Hospice we have learned that Hospice is about living, living with a terminal illness and spending each day as comfortable and dignified as possible.