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I have read of others on this forum who thought hospice was a wonderful way to get affordable services but seemingly failed to take into consideration or understand exactly what they were signing up for. You need to be fully aware that the focus of hospice is end of life care. The corporate expectation that the patient is dying in weeks or months means that nurses concentrate on comfort care - easing pain or symptoms - rather than curative care, and telling you to tuck your mother in bed rather than call an ambulance is a result of that philosophy.
I'm not saying anything against hospice care, but are you sure this something you really want at this time?
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Thank you for your responses. I had thought about uti, but not stroke. I am having them get the Dr to evaluate her today. As far as hospice, they have been involved for a while now because it's a free service that medicare offers to folks with long term illnesses. They come a few times a week and check on her and manage her medicine. It's been very helpful.
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Update on my neighbor. She now says that she sees other people in her home along with seeing some other woman with me when I am there and now wants to buy herself a new car even though her license was taken away a year ago. She can easily go to the bank and get the cash and then buying a car from somebody wanting to sell theirs. I told her that she can't drive without a license or insurance and she just argues with me about it so I shut up. If she does it then she will get stopped and then be put away before she does harm to someone.
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I agree that she needs to see a doctor as soon as you can get her in there to the urologist and also her primary to have her checked for a stroke.
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Why is hospice involved, does she have another disease that makes her eligible? Instead of accepting that this is a "normal" progression of dementia (it's not) I would be pushing for answers and a reason for her sudden, dramatic decline; have her checked for a UTI or stroke.
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