My Mom needs total care and is in AL and also on Hospice. What if Mom chokes, falls and breaks a bone. A hospice RN visits Mom 2x/wk, and confers with MD. Is that enough? Mom has a heart condition&PD, so as her teeth break, no dentist will do anything. She has no pain and is content, but feel badly, like "she is 89 and so nothing is done"? Just give her meds, help her eat&dress and bathe, and that's that?
Could just have been this particular agency, or maybe I didn't understand the terms, but It seemed to me they were too eager to put her in hospice to begin with. All she had wrong was dementia and some unexplainable heart numbers, and at her age (93) whatever was wrong they said would be untreatable anyway.
I would *never* put anyone in hospice again unless their condition was clearly short term terminal. My mother died of dehydration 5 days after going on hospice. Terrible experience. I'll never forgive myself for making this decision.