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[quote=Anonymous]OP, hospice care probably isn't your answer. Hospice is only available for patients who have less than 6 months to live, so you'll need a diagnosis that is consistent with that. Even advanced stage dementia patients can live for years, and so it is particularly hard for Alzheimers patients to get qualified for hospice. We went through this with a parent who was unable to engage in self-care and limited to pureed foods. Still didn't qualify until he was very close to death. It sounds like you don't even know what is wrong with your dad. Unless you can produce a diagnosis for a terminal illness, even being very elderly and going downhill won't be sufficient to get him hospice care.[/quote]
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