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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
I think if there has been significant weight loss, falls, or excessive sleeping, inability/trouble swallowing , difficulty moving/waking it’s time for evaluation. My mom was referred by her memory care for evaluation in mid stage 6 after she kept losing weight; then before the evaluation happened she fell and broke her pelvis and passed a few weeks later. Before th fall I think hospice would have been a nice weekly visit but with the fall it was almost daily.

Hospice came daily??? I have never heard of that.

I'm so sorry about your mom.
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thank you. Yes, after her fall, we began hospice. She was pretty stable the first few days, eating and talking a bit, so they were going to come 3 days/week. But by the end of the first week she started declining/becoming agitated, and they switched to daily visits and added ativan and morphine, when they thought she was actively dying. It was up and down --at one point she seemed to stabilize, but the hospice said that she could be stable for a while, or it could be temporary so they wanted to check every day....it lasted maybe 3-4 days, with times that she was sitting up and eating a bit and responding a bit, but then she started just sleeping more and eating/drinking less and less. She was also on a fair amount of both morphine and ativan. All told, it was about a month between her fall and her passing, but it was not entirely linear.

I was glad to have hospice come daily to give me a report, but I also spent a lot of time with her myself noting her breathing, etc. She was in a memory care and the staff there were also keeping an eye on her, checking every half hour or so.[/quote]

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