Hospice and rookie mistakes

[Anonymous]

Hospice care is not well explained. Sometimes all you get is a phone number to call, a referral.

Ask for the social worker at the hospital who may explain.

The medical team may turn to patients who still need them and you may feel dropped.

And some of us wait to9 long to get the hospice team involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok. Then what is rehab?

Rehabilitative care is PT/OT in a setting that usuall provides a bit more care than assisted living. It’s for people who can gain strength and skills to return to assisted or independent living.

Skilled nursing is for people who require 24/7 nursing supervision and are not candidates for rehabilitation.

When my mom was being discharged from acute hospital care, we were told that rehab was for people who could tolerate 4 hours of therapy a day (but needed more care than could be provided at home) and skilled nursing was for people who needed round the clock care and maybe could do a little maintenance therapy, but not as strenuous as rehab.

That is acute rehab I believe which has other significant requirements to be approved by Medicare.