I think it must depend on the State regulations and the disease. My Mama was considered in Hospice Care and she has Alzheimer's. They considered it a terminal illness, it just takes longer than others. With the Hospice designation, she was able to receive some of her medications through the program. She wasn't really on that many prescription meds at the time.
She's now in a nursing home, and interestingly is more alert and talkative than she's been in months. My sisters said the nurses will wheel her down to the Nurses' Station with all the other old folks who are not ambulatory or confined to beds with IVs etc. They will sit and chatter among themselves, though half the time, no one knows what anyone else is talking about, they just like being in a group.
She still has the congestive heart failure and diminshed kidney capacity, but she's hanging in there!
My family said that the Hospice people were always very good to Mama; the nurses and aides were very caring people. If you need to go that route Corin, I'm sure you'll find the same.