Thank you for sharing this. This is has been my experience. It will be one month today that my father passed away. He was home and was steadily declining over the years from dementia. He had a home health lady that was heaven sent which allowed me to at least have a life most days. Months before I meet with our local hospice agency to navigate the current status of agencies in my area and they were wonderful. He was hospice eligible at home but I opted not to because he would loose our care giver that he was so comfortable with due to insurance complexities. In his final hours, I transferred him to an inpatient hospice through our local ER for IV morphine. Throughout the process I have meet that most beautiful people who themselves are care givers and we leveraged on each other's experiences on how to navigate this area. What I learnt is that it was important to select a local hospice agency that has both an outpatient and inpatient facility and trust me they are a dime a dozen. What saved my mental and emotional health when he passed was that we had prearranged his funeral arrangements years in advance. I will truly miss him.
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Post: The C Word
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Thank you for sharing this. This is has been my experience. It will be one month today that my father passed away. He was home and was steadily declining over the years from dementia. He had a home health lady that was heaven sent which allowed me to at least have a life most days. Months before I meet with our local hospice agency to navigate the current status of agencies in my area and they were wonderful. He was hospice eligible at home but I opted not to because he would loose our care giver that he was so comfortable with due to insurance complexities. In his final hours, I transferred him to an inpatient hospice through our local ER for IV morphine. Throughout the process I have meet that most beautiful people who themselves are care givers and we leveraged on each other's experiences on how to navigate this area. What I learnt is that it was important to select a local hospice agency that has both an outpatient and inpatient facility and trust me they are a dime a dozen. What saved my mental and emotional health when he passed was that we had prearranged his funeral arrangements years in advance. I will truly miss him.
Post: Dying at Home
Link to comment from September 3, 2023