And the difference is ???
There is a huge difference in cost, which is what you were focusing on, probably a couple of orders of magnitude.
My father had Alzheimer's. It is one thing to DNR someone who physically cannot breath on their own. It is quite something else to deny food to a human who can in fact breath on their own. Children cannot feed themselves. Do we not have a moral and ethical responsibility to take care of our people who cannot care for themselves? Does this only apply towards children? Are you willing to let the Bureaucratic Inhumanity to control our basic right to live? If there are those who will take care of her, get out of the way and let them do so.
A hospice is a palliative care center for the terminally ill. It's illegal for Terri, who is not suffering a terminal illness, to be there. The normal stay is about 6 months. They make the dying more comfortable with pain meds etc. Terri has been there 5 years.
My Lord! We are in big trouble if more people do not know the difference between a hospice and a hospital, between a nursing home and hospice. Between comas and vegetative states and brain death, between cardiac arrests and heart attacks. Between extraordinary life support and ordinary means. I could go on...but we need help!