Hospice care is for patients with serious medical conditions that make daily life difficult and uncomfortable. Some patients experience pain or difficult symptoms because of their disease or the treatments that were intended to cure their ailments. Hospice care is all about easing pain and discomfort for patients with terminal illnesses. Patients in hospice may suffer from cancer, cardiac and respiratory diseases, renal disease, and neurological illness. Anyone who has six months or less to live and is looking to make the last months of their life as comfortable as possible is best suited for hospice.