Medications used hospice care
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When the doctors in the hospital found that haldol was used to make her comatose,her heart medications were withdrawn and refused to be continued dont they have an obligation to my mother?Does Hospice have any obligations to the withdrawal of medications? Can the GP three weeks after an appointment with the cardiologist sign an affadavid that my mother has six months or less to live?He did not even call the cardiologist.
They have had a team meeting with all of her doctors and have called hospice. she will be discharged home saturday. my question is what can we do to help her deal with this, she is having a hard time and very depressed and angry. we have lost our mother and another sister to this awful disease. God Bless all of you.
t take care of him myself anymore. The hospice place took very good care of him and let him die with some dignity even though he was in a coma at the end.
The actions that your mother is going through are all normal so don't be alarmed. My dad would see members of his family that had been dead for many many years. He saw angels and people he didn't know. Sometimes he would carry on conversations with them. All normal.
Please check into a hospice facility in your area.
Hi I am so sorry your sweet mom is going threw this and your living it to
Wow, sad to say yes it sounds like your mom is close, is she still eating, and drinking,
Sad to say those homes don't care, you have to take up for her she can't , make sure they are doing all they can for her even if you have to talk to a dr and see what he thinks, prayers for her and ya
The best thing you can do is talk to her doctor. Is she on hospice? If you are in the US, usually doctors recommend hospice for the final weeks/months. The distended belly could be a bowel blockage, tumor or ascites. There is just no way to know someone's end time. But, it can take a very long time even with the symptoms you described. Everyone is different. I definitely recommend talking to her doctor so you have an idea of her current status and future treatment goals.
How did you know it was time for hospice? And, if someone has used hospice for someone with liver failure, how did they help? I have a great family and my husband is greatly loved and cared for. We pray he gets better, but I am not seeing it. How do I know what is best for him? Or is keeping him here with family the best I can do to support him?
MY HUSBAND IS NOW IN HOSPICE CARE. HE IS REFUSING TO TAKE ANY OF HIS HEART MEDICATIONS. AFTER A SEDATIVE SHOT AT BOTH A NURSING HOME AND IN THE HOSPITALHE IS SUFFERING FROM HALLUCINATIONS. WHAT CAN I NOW EXPECT TO HAPPEN. HIS ADVANCE DIRECTIVES SAY NO NURSING HOME OR EXTRAORDINARY METHODS.
I am a Hospice/Palliative care Registered Nurse. As our "baby boomers" age, we have a need for basic knowledge in how to know when to consider Palliative and/or Hospice Care. Professionals like myself, a Hospice Nurse has the better knowledge as to the hands on assistance that enrollment in a Palliative Care Program or a Hospice Program can give.
Thank you for your information...my Mom is in Hospice as she has chosen not to receive additional cancer treatments. The only thing she has continued is her liquid nutrition that goes through her port site. She is very weak and Hospice has finally gotten her uncontrollable nausea and dry heaving under control. She does have a bowel obstruction, tumors (I don't know what ascites are?) etc., and has become very weak, very quickly.
Today she lives at home with 24 hr care. She has a G Tube, colostomy bag and a fistula in her pelvic area. Her condition is terminal. No health care team does not have an estimate of how long she will live. She lives at home with 24 caregivers. When the fistual appeared 3 weeks ago her oncologist advised us to call Hospice. We did, they came, and an RN immediately said she was going to die of septicemia. We were preparing for her death.
I was on the Fentanly patch (50mcg) for almost a year. I used it as prescribed (changing the patch every 3 days) but started having side effects with my pancreas and all the pain medications I was taking. I talked to my doctor and he asked if I could add a day (changing the patch every 4 days). I agreed, cut down on my other pain medications and tried it. The morphine will build up in your system over time.
In '96 my Dad passed away. Hospice situation. I rang hospice to let them know and while on the phone they told me to immediately flush all meds (morphine) down toilet. I did so. Years later I read about a private company testing the water in most of our major cities, they found antidepressants, narcotics, anxiety meds in our drinking water. I was shocked to read this. Now I'm here and see that that is the advice as well.
No, that is NOT how hospice usually works. My Dad was on home hospice care - twice. Once when the doctors determined he was in end stage heart failure; the second time when he had cancer throughout his body. The first time the hospice workers would come by the house a couple times a week to monitor his general health and adjust his meds as needed and answer any questions/give support to him and my Mom.
I used hospice when the hospital said they could do no more. and I received a lot of books and studied up on it for taking care of my mom. we went through a hard patch. and her doctor was not available at the hospital. he changed her meds and put her on buspar. not sure of the spelling. she quit being violent . I asked the doctor to be her doctor but he said he already had too many patients. good luck I am sure thereis some one to stay daily. some nursing homes they have day care.
When my Dad was on hospice care (dying from heart failure) his ICD battery was getting low. But with CHF no one is quite sure how long the heart can last. They actually took him off hospice care for a few days, replaced his ICD with a plain pacemaker and then put him back on hospice. He did quite well with just that and eventually died from cancer a year or so later.
How long a battery lasts depends on how much it's used.
I don't know what it all means because I'm not a cardiologist but I think the bottom line here is who is in charge of your father's care. When I had to put my father into hospice care, his doctor was still in charge of my father's care, the doctor and his family made all of the decisions concerning his care.
My Dad was supposed to fill out a form that gave specific directions on what he wanted done or not done after he was diagnosed with end stage heart failure. He didn't like the idea of filling out the form. My Mom and I ended up having to make the decisions based on what we knew he'd want. Very hard thing to do during a hard time.
If your father-in-law ends up in hospice care (like my Dad) it's understood that some things will not be done.
t remember to use his call button to call someone so the other residents are having to go get an aide. The hospice nurse does go there everyday. It was the hospice nurse that made the suggestion of the skilled nursing section. In the assisted living section the nurses are only there from 8am to 5pm. In the skilled nursing section there are 2 nurses there 24 hours.
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