My mother had been in an assisted living facility, but was transferred to a hospice. (She is the one referred to in the "Doppelgänger" question I posted months ago.) A lawyer I work with claims patients sent to hospice facilities live, on the average, 15 days in such facilities, then they die there. Is there any basis for this notion?
Hospice patients are very ill and thus close to the end of life. 15 days- 4 days - 2 months- whenever- time isn’t usually an issue because once Hospice is in place you have the privilege of choosing to allow your loved one to pass comfortably with their needs being provided at end of life with the support of the Hospice team.
Yes its it’s hard to lose a parent. Enjoy her while you can. The goal is comfort.
Hospice is for patients at the of their lives. Usually, when a patient enters a Hospice facility or starts receiving Hospice care, they are very, very ill.
That's why they don't live very long, not because they are not getting good care.