3 Jul 2023 9:34 am
Either you are lying to us, or she lied to you. My daughter is an administrator for a long-term care facility (aka nursing home) and my wife and I have been living with and caring for her mother for the last 8 years so she can stay in her home.OdeToJoy » 02 Jul 2023, 7:25 am » wrote: ↑ Nope. A representative for a for profit Hospice company came over to talk at my senior apartment building about hospice. She said that Medicare required that Hospice was only for people whose doctors had determined that they would die in about a month. But she said we didn't need to worry about that because some of these people were still alive, and on hospice care, after 18 months.
My daughter, at her facility alone, has had a dozen residents go on Hospice for several months and then have the service end because they improved. My mother-in-law was on Hospice for about six months before the home health service took her off. In every case, no doctor determined the patients were terminal. However, all were told that they would probably not get much better but were not terminal...unless you define terminal as "everyone is going to die eventually". You DO NOT need a terminal diagnosis from a doctor to qualify for Hospice care with Medicare. Medicine is not that exact a science.
My aunt, who lost her battle with brain cancer about 10 years ago, was on Hospice for almost a year. While she was terminal...no doctor would give her a time frame of other than "there is no way to know...probably no more than two years" so your "...die in about a month" is also ****.