hospice

  1. lisa g

    Hospice and medication

    When entering Hospice care, does anyone know if you can continue taking your medication such as Riluzole and Radicava ORS?
  2. Clearwater AL

    End of life hospice nurse. Not easy to accept but...

    End of life nurse… there may be 'better' ways to go, says an end of life hospice care expert. Julie McFadden, a hospice nurse in California, revealed on a podcast... "To me, there are a couple diseases that are the worst." The first cause she mentioned was ALS (amyotrophic lateral schlerosis)...
  3. Tomswife

    Last weeks

    i am suggesting that the forum have some reliable, vetted resources to help members with questions about end of life. So when members need advice, point them elsewhere. It should not be the focus or role of this forum. Ie. Thats not what we're all about. I dont think it should be the...
  4. Tomswife

    How physician services are billed under Hospice

    There is a thread under the Current Caregivers - Hospice Pros and Cons. This thread is about billing. Medical care is a business. If you are in Hospice care, the services are billed under original Medicare and paid 100 percent. You don't need to be end stage of a disease to use Hospice...
  5. Tomswife

    Hospice pros and cons

    I found this resource on Hospice care. The article is well written and comprehensive. It seems the big issue is that most hospice are for-profit. Just Google zaggocare dot org pros-cons-hospice-care "Although hospices were once run by nonprofit organizations, sadly, 70% of hospice...
  6. M

    No trilogy in hospice

    The hospice org we were going to use has said that they will not support my husband’s trilogy, that they see it as a ventilator. Anyone else run into this roadblock?
  7. D

    Palliative Care

    Does pallative Care, like hospice, disqualify one from Medicare paying for certain items like a power wheelchair?
  8. chally

    Update on Hospice

    Finally got the BS cleared away and now officially in hospice care, morphine, Ativan and all what comes next Got good nurses coming in, got good aides night and day to give Beth much much needed rest. Can’t type my own texts so alot less frequent correspondence , sorry! Things have sped up...
  9. Nuts

    Life

    Matt has been gone four months, and it feels like a lifetime. On the other hand, I think I'm just now mourning what we went through. All the losses that I was unable to mourn because we were too busy trying to live--I think they are battling their way out of the box I locked them in at the time...
    • Nuts
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    • als crying dad dementia family father fear free hospice pain
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    • Forum: Past caregivers
  10. K

    Thoughts on When to Get Hospice

    My PALS and I have decided to use hospice when the time is right. He uses a Trilogy about 17 hours a day, does not want to be trached or have a PEG. He is able to eat whatever he wants (with the help of water to wash it down), he transfers from scooter to chair/commode but anything he does is...
    • katygal
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    • adjustable advice age bed breathing breathing issues chair clinic cough assist decline eating fvc helpful hospice hours love mip peg pwc scooter support transfers trilogy
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Current caregivers
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