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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent is 90, incontinent, demented, but has nothing that will kill them. Can walk with walker and feed and dress self. Takes BP meds, and an anti-depressant. The cholesterol med was stopped a while ago. Would hospice take a person like this? What would they do? Parent expresses wish to die. Honestly, it would be a blessing. They never would've wanted to live like this, nor would I if it were me. I am lost.[/quote]

Hospice is for people in their last six months of life.

Generally, in the DMV, hospice is not a place people go.  Hospice comes to the person and is very skeletal.  For example, they Avery good at proving the equipment one needs in the last six months- like a bed chair or a hospital bed.  When my father was ‘in hospice’, he lived with us.  The nurse came once a week for a bout 30 minutes, the social working came every other with the nurse. An aide came twice a week to give my Dad a sponge bath. The doctor came once the entire time (two days before he died). He was ‘in hospice’ for three months.  They also arranged for an orthopedist to come and cut my Dad’s toe nails and gave us the morphine he needed in the last 24 hours.  That was it.  Medicare paid for each visit and rental charge on each piece of equipment. The nurse was $300 each time she came. The hospice also got a monthly fee of $5,000 a month for who knows what.  I think it is somewhat of a scam. The was Capital Caring and 5 years ago.

If a person lives in a nursing home or assisted living facility, hospice goes there, but the person still has to pay the assisted living /nursing home fees like before. It is an add one thing, not a replacement thing. [/quote]

This. Hospice is an add-on to whatever you choose to do, basically. It does not "take you in" and provide the round the clock daily caretakers, for example, so you still need to arrange for nursing home/assisted living/home health care. [/quote]

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