More recently, there is another movement in the United States to use ‘‘supportive
care’’ instead of ‘‘palliative care’’ because of the belief that the term palliative care still carries a lot
of baggage implying a negative death and dying. Although we are aware of the mixed use of these terms in
our society, in order to delineate the scope of end-of-life care, we will differentiate palliative care and hospice
care in this article as it has been defined above.