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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hospice is for people who have 6 months or less to live and they agree to forgo and life extending therapies.  Plus, they do not go to their doctors, they only see the Hospice doctors/nurses.  Hospice has to okay all outside doctor’s visits.

My experience was with my mother in coastal NC and here in NOVA with my father.  Both were in home and the Hospice was skeletal.  We saw the nurse once a week and the social worker came about every other week- for 30 minutes to an hour.  The doctor came once a month.  The bather came twice a week (could have been 3x) for 30 minutes.  What worked best was the equipment they brought in (rented) - a bed, a toilet chair, a soft cushion for a push chair (he had one so that was not provided) and some supplies  for wound care.   In NC, they moved my mother to their facility 24 hours before she died.  Here, my father died in our home.

My FIL also had hospice in PA - it was delivered in a similar skeletal manor at his assisted living facility- but they also provided someone to come and sit with him 4 hours at a time several times a week.  This was not available here or in NC.  [/quote]

Not true.  My mother was in hospice for 3 years.  A very slowing dementia decline. [/quote]

Then you had an unethical hospice as if she improves or just regular dementia, in MD they wouldn't qualify.  Dementia is not a qualifying criteria. [/quote]

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