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.