Bullshit. It's a euthanasia floor. If you want to do end of life care, take your loved ones home.
And be thankful it is a euthanasia floor. When someone you love goes brain dead or worse.
If there was any honor in the western system you could opt for a bullet in the head vs pumping people full of morphine until they starve to death.
I agree with you about home care. I'm not on board with hospice at the hospital unless it's genuinely warranted. I used to work in hospice and not a fan of what I saw in hospital. I preferred working with clients in their homes.
Yeah, I have only dealth with hospice when it's the last week of someone's life. I'd never let my family or friends near a facility, hospital or otherwise unless it was the final wink out and it was trying to obtain a mostly painless exit.
I didn't even realize, until you said something that people would be in hospice in other circumstances.
Some people are there for weeks. I swear, they put people in there that would normally have a good six months to live and they basically morphine them to.death. I hate it. It's just evil. Yea, yiu can be put on hospice for many reasons. End of life care can be 20 minutes or a couple of years. Some times you can be on hospice/palliative care for a couple years because it's an insurance thing, where if you aren't "hospice " you may not have certain services unless you were labeled that.
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