Right. We’ve been checking into Hospice for our mother, but she would have to have documentation from her doctor stating that she has less than six months to live. She’s 99, but
The issue that started my MIL in Hospice was that every couple of weeks she was being transported to the hospital from her nursing home. The came a point where she had had enough, was ready to die, and said so. The doctor have her little hope. Enter Hospice.
She signed papers stating no more trips to the ER, and to opt out of some of her daily prescriptions. She improved! A Hospice nurse came 2x/week to check her vitals, etc.
That was back in 2013, and she died in 2015. I didn’t know what the laws were then.
... she’s 99, but doing pretty well.
Many people were and still are confused about hospice. They recoil at the thought that their loved ones should “go to a hospice to just die”.
Thankfully that ignorance is slowly fading away.