My 98 year old husband was on hospice for 9 months. I believe the support and care he received allowed him to enjoy the time he had left in comfort. It allowed friends and family to have quality time with him. The nurses, aides, chaplain and social worker became part of our family. I am an outspoken advocate of hospice care to all my friends and colleagues.
2 years ago | 4
My 100-year-old mother entered hospice care a year ago when she stopped interacting with people. But after about a month, when her covid isolation ended and we were able to get her hearing aids working, she perked up and started eating, walking, and talking with people. So she " graduated" from hospice after about 6 weeks. Then, in late February 2023 she began a rapid physical decline and hospice came on board again. They were so fantastically helpful and supportive to both her and our entire family. Also, about a decade and a half before, her 102-year-old husband needed hospice care in his home for about a month. His wife, my mother, was having a very difficult time accepting that he was dying. The hospice worker was so fantastically compassionate in the way that she helped us face the reality that he was on his way out. I feel that he was just hanging on beyond the time when he really wanted to go , because of his fear that he would cause my mother pain. After a number of hospice care visits, everyone became more comfortable with the reality and I believe that he felt that he had permission to leave this earth. They were also of course very helpful with practical matters. I cannot say enough good about hospice care workers
1 year ago | 0
I've had four loved ones in hospice care including my mother and three grandparents. All of our experiences were amazing.
2 years ago | 1
Excellent experience once we found it. My father’s oncologist never offered it as an option. He was “full steam ahead” with expensive cancer treatment on an 80-year old man, stage 3. I felt like he was putting profit before patient. Docs need better education and willingness to consider hospice care.
2 years ago (edited) | 7
My beloved died on August 12 while on hospice. I was with him, lying beside him as he took his last breaths, caressing his face, expressing my face, saying, 'be at peace.' It was beautiful and profound. 58 years married and he died and we were surrounded by beautiful caring people. We kept a vigil by the bedside. People came and sat and talked about how he connected with them. I had a ledger with blank pages that I asked the aide's to sign, esp. the aides. That was a precious time.
2 years ago | 0
Yes, my mother was in Hospice care twice , while battling her diagnosis of Stage 4 Breast Cancer. The Hospice Care Center is in the Medical center. They truly did what they could do to make sure she was comfortable in her pain and eventually demise. The ppl working there were incredibly kind and attentive.
2 weeks ago | 0
We had wonderful caregivers who came to our mother’s bedside at her home. We sisters were able to care for her. The Hospice care was a great help for us. My mother passed peacefully and comfortably thanks to home health hospice. They supported us and taught us so much.
2 years ago | 1
Yes, my mom died of dementia in 2020. She wasn't on hospice very long. The support and attention were still such a help that I've become a hospice volunteer.
2 years ago | 4
VA Home Hospice care was awesome. Very kind, dedicated, competent people who showed up every day, including to pronounce him dead and sit by him while my sister made calls. I worked in a VA long-term care unit and we had a dedicated hospice wing, so I had some high standards for the care my father got. Along with the oncology team at the VA, they supported his goal to hang on and die on the 6th anniversary of my mother's death, which he missed by only a few minutes.
2 years ago (edited) | 0
Considering the situation hospice was wonderful. The people that worked there were supportive and caring. I'm so appreciative of the care my mother received.
2 years ago | 0
Yes my grandmother 93yrs old at the time . I left my apartment and my life and moved in with her to provide 24hr care she needed and my mother helped out too . Had to grandma was always always there for me as I kid and I still miss her very much . Rip
2 years ago | 0
My sister who lived alone received hospice care in her home. The care & attendants were awesome & helped her live with good pain management in her own bed.
2 years ago | 1
Yes my mom was in hospice. I was her caregiver. She passed over a year now. What I didn’t like was the medication they gave her it almost killed her. Even hospice nurses thought she was in active death. And 2 days in a coma later she woke up and asked to use the bathroom. The drugs hastened the process. We including my mom knew that the end was near . We wanted it to be a natural process. Letting her life force dissipate on its own. It was also interesting that no medications would be given to extend her life. I found that odd as well. It left me wondering what is the perspective of the doctor’s and nurses around the process of getting old, or being “terminally sick”, and the process of death.
2 years ago | 1
My sisters and I were our mom's caregivers. She battled Alzheimer's for 13 years. The last couple of years, she had hospice care. There were visits from a nurse, a social worker, a CNA, a music therapist, everything you can imagine. The kindness, education and acccess to resources we received from her spectacular team were helpful beyond words, an absolute Godsend. They never failed to make her smile. Ultimitely, her death was gentle and peaceful. We were prepared for all the steps leading up to this type of slow death because of what our mom's team taught us. Without their guidance, witnessing the changes in late stage Alzheimer's and death would have been harder to accept and understand. I will be forever grateful to all of them.
2 years ago | 0
My Aunt had hospice in '90. Had it not been available I couldn't of kept her in her home. They were wonderful to us. It was a very hard time, hospice made it manageable. I so appreciated them ❤️
2 years ago | 0
Horrible! I’ll never forgive myself for the situation my father endured. The facility was short staffed, seldom responded and showed no care. I was 90 miles away and could only visit a few days each week. When my mother fell I’ll at 90, my sister took early retirement to care for her at home.
2 years ago | 1
Hospice at home was a godsend for my mom in the last months of her life. Dramatically improved her quality of life! So grateful for the experience we had.
2 years ago | 1
I'm done with the notion that even basic promised care will come close to happening. I'm glad that it has been something that Carter could get, but it is not available from corporately managed medicine. They will code for it, holding any palliative care hostage until you sign, but still won't let you have palliative care even after you sign up for hospice in hope of reasonable palliative care. They chuckle that you fell for it, and care goes from bad to worse because people are just there for CEOs to traffic around their networks to use for automatic coding, and ignore.
2 years ago | 0
My wife was able to pass peacefully - with her four kids near her! - thanks to hospice!!!
2 years ago | 0
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