Purgatory said...
English Alf:
As for me, I would want hospice at home, in my own surroundings, as long as it didn't burden my wife too much, or as long as I didn't have other medical complications which would hinder it being at home.
david in sc
I can attest to hospice at home. My wife was a hospice volunteer for quite a few years. And aside from the many families she has worked with, her mother and my father both died in care of hospice at home. The hospice provided hospital bed, wheel chair, walker, medications, and staff. While her mother was in a terminal decline (living with us in our dining room and living room which we had converted to her living space) we had hospice nurses turning up to check on her, meds delivered to our doorstep, and volunteers who turned up to relieve my wife and me for a couple of hours so we could have a "date nite" at the local restaurant or movie theater, and even our mail man who would come in and have a chat with my MIL.
And then a couple of years later, my father went pretty much the same way, though still living at home with my mother. Hospice nurse and aids turned up pretty much daily. I finished 36 days of radiation just in time so my wife and I could take turns turning up in the last couple of weeks of my father's life to do all-nighters so my mother could get a few hours sleep. My mother still doesn't, and never will, know, about
my radiation. But without the hospice help it would simply not have been possible for my mother (with serious health problems of her own) and my wife and I to have handled it on our own.