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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sucks.

They don’t tell you hospice does very little and you’ll still have to provide 24-7 care.

A nurse decided to give my dad a lethal dose of morphine without telling us and left him alone on a sofa at a memory care unit in Olney. He had stopped eating so they forced us to put him on hospice and also took away all his meds so he was freezing from lack of thyroid medications. Really messed up.

I think hospice is terrible.

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I have a friend in elder care; she says a person is dead within 3 days of stopping eating. 
The nurse’s act was actually one of compassion as much as it is possible in rehab/hospice.
I am sorry about your dad but he would have lasted maybe one more day if not that.
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Your friend is wrong. My father didn't eat for weeks, just had a basic IV, after his stroke. Eventually he regained his ability to eat.[/quote]

Very different situations.  With hydration a person can live for months.  Hospice typically does not use iv hydration after a person can no longer swallow.  It is part of the dying process for a person who is dying.  A person recovering from a stoke, illness, surgery is a different situation.[/quote]

Not true. For example, many patients with ALS lose the ability to swallow and go on a feeding tube when they have significant quality of life left. When their breathing finally starts to fail and they go on hospice, hospice doesn’t prevent them from continuing to “eat” through their feeding tube, to the extent that their body will still digest food. That would be incredibly cruel.[/quote]

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