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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  We are bringing in hospice care per the recommendation of her GP.  It is not considered end of life care (a learning point for us--I had misunderstood this about hospice) but will mean she has someone with her 24/7.  Until that is in place we are putting a mattress on the floor and will take turns staying with her.  The mats are ordered.  They were suggested as a good idea even after the hospice aid is in place.  Thank you all for your input.  [/quote]

Hospice **is** end-of-life care, OP - you literally cannot be approved unless you have a prognosis of less than 6 months, and they are pretty stringent about that (by necessity) with the very elderly and people with dementia. And if it is a service coming to your mother's AL facility, it won't be 24/7; it will be an occasional supplement to her existing support system. (If she's being transferred to a hospice house, staff there are round the clock.)[/quote]

This isn't fully true.  There needs to be a significant change of circumstance.  We had significant weight loss and that was enough to trigger hospice but they came in, forced chagnes in the nursing home, weight went up and they were forced to pull out till there was another justifiable change.[/quote]

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