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Say you are in a Hospice Program w Pacemaker to assist your heart
Aging Well | Last Active: Jun 2 8:47am | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
@vijay26, you're right hospice care can be delivered by medical professionals at the patient's home (home hospice) or in a hospital or hospice medical setting, often referred to a residential hospice.
Hospice care professionals on a team (home or residential settings) may include specially trained physicians, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, chaplains and others depending on the services needed. Hospice services often also include specially trained hospice volunteers and/or end-of-life doulas, who are non-medical professionals providing holistic, emotional, and practical support to both the hospice patient and their families.
@vijay26, I can see that you have a lot of questions about palliative and hospice care. Are you or a family member preparing for hospice care?
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Also can be in skilled nursing facilities.
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@colleenyoung
I was in Hospice for ten days and they revoked it, after my brief hospital stay due to a fall. While in hospital, they gave blood transfusion to me, that was not related to my accidental fall at home.
Because of the fall, one of my Neprostomy tubes got busted and it could not be replaced at home. It has to be done by a qualified surgeon in hospital.
So, Medicare considered that replacement as a interventional curative procedure.
The agency that enrolled me never told me about it beforehand. They knew that I have these tubes to assist my failing kidney to remove toxins from my body. W/o it, I could die due to extreme pain, infections, poor hygiene and lack of young caregivers.
My husband is 81, who cares for me now.
It is very difficult.
Sorry to bother you all w my problems.
Thank you all.
VJ