Let me warn you that the Hospice is the biggest scam of them all !
These vultures flew around around my relative hoping for a big donation by helping bump him off early with the help of the hospital that wanted to cut there losses on his treatments ( he had Medicare).
Hospice wanted to move in right in after the 3 to 6 month diagnosis .
I told them to shove it on the phone.
Fours years later and three overseas trips later he died on his own in his own bed not in some hospice.
Excuse me? Several members of my family have been in Hospice care over the years. They all died at home, with love and dignity, surrounded by the family members that cared for them. And Hospice made it possible for those family members to care for them in that setting. By providing the equipment, medicine and support they needed, Hospice helped them keep those family members home and out of clinical hospitals surrounded by blank walls and strangers. Even afterwards, they received support counseling and a special summer camp for the kids who’d also lost parents. Don’t tell me they do all that expecting some big donation from a middle class family who is struggling already.
No high-tech but at the same time no pushing the old guy toward the exit: pain-free, natural decline, supported by care and prayer and truly kind-hearted CNA's and Fudge Ripple Ice Cream.