My Mom is assisted living under hospice care with CHF, however she has improved since hospice care commenced almost 2 months ago, her assisted living said she is probably better enough for home health care rather than hospice, I am not sure of the pros and cons, Mom does not want more hospitals emergency room or skilled nursing rehab facility visits, she is comfortable, not sure what to do.
My step-mother has pulmonary fibrosis and has lived past the number of years one normally has after such a diagnosis. The doctors are not always right even about the more predictable diseases.
Although my mother had a living will stating her desire to die a natural death, the nursing home told me that I had to chose for her to be DNR or not as her medical POA. I chose for her to be DNR and she died a natural death from one final stroke.
There are no guarantees against ER visits or skilled nursing home rehab visits. My mother went to a skilled nursing home rehab after a stroke and did walk again. However, at the assisted living place she fell and broke her hip. She was once again sent to a skilled nursing home rehab to help her walk again which she never did and during her 4 years in that nursing home went to the ER (emergency room) several times.