My Mom is assisted living under hospice care with CHF, however she has improved since hospice care commenced almost 2 months ago, her assisted living said she is probably better enough for home health care rather than hospice, I am not sure of the pros and cons, Mom does not want more hospitals emergency room or skilled nursing rehab facility visits, she is comfortable, not sure what to do.
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My step-mother has pulmonary fibrosis and has lived past the number of years one normally has after such a diagnosis. The doctors are not always right even about the more predictable diseases.
Although my mother had a living will stating her desire to die a natural death, the nursing home told me that I had to chose for her to be DNR or not as her medical POA. I chose for her to be DNR and she died a natural death from one final stroke.
There are no guarantees against ER visits or skilled nursing home rehab visits. My mother went to a skilled nursing home rehab after a stroke and did walk again. However, at the assisted living place she fell and broke her hip. She was once again sent to a skilled nursing home rehab to help her walk again which she never did and during her 4 years in that nursing home went to the ER (emergency room) several times.