What are the signs that it is time for hospice care?
Following are some of the signs that it may be time for the added benefits of hospice:
- Hospitalizations over the last year
- Recent weight loss over the last six months
- Difficulty swallowing
- Needing more assistance with activities of daily living
- Increased or new onset of incontinence
- Decreased stamina
- Increased edema
- Increased shortness of breath
- Decreased ability to communicate
- Increased disorientation or confusion
- Withdrawal from family and friends
- Decreased appetite
- Infections, such as UTI or respiratory
- New wounds or wounds that do not heal
