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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

A close family member who has advanced bowel cancer with secondaries has just been taken to a hospice. The doctors have said they do not have the correct medication or the license to administer the same and that’s why she has been moved (the hospice is in the hospital grounds). Could they just be skirting around the fact that she’s been sent here to die? Are they obliged to tell you?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't know if they only tell details to next of kin.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Usually when you go to the hospice you are close to death. But from my experience of loved ones who are dying, the docs have always been honest and said

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By *asil and SybilCouple
over a year ago

Here,there and everywhere.

Hospices do fantastic work, not only with people who are on their final journey but also to help manage pain for people who are seriously ill.

Generally the staff are really attentive and helpful and easy to talk to so ask them to explain.

Also (from what I've seen) the care is better than in a hospital as the staff have more time and aren't so stretched.

It's definitely not just a place to go you die but if I'm seriously ill I'd rather see out my days in one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hospices are not only for when you are close to death. Some people go for pain management as hospices specialise in pain with terminal illness, then go back home.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dear ole mum (RIP) was sent to a hospice for 3 months, we was told that she would only have a little time left, and that would be the best place for her.

They looked after her like she was royalty, made her smile and laugh every day, and took very good care of her right up until her last breath.

I couldn’t praise them enough for what they did for her, and made her last few months on this side of life happy and as comfortable as they possibly could. xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hospices are amazing places not only for the dying but for those with chronic / life limiting disease or those with complex pain needs x

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By *ara JTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

"A close family member who has advanced bowel cancer with secondaries has just been taken to a hospice. The doctors have said they do not have the correct medication or the license to administer the same and that’s why she has been moved (the hospice is in the hospital grounds). Could they just be skirting around the fact that she’s been sent here to die? Are they obliged to tell you?"

I think of hospices as places for care of people who are terminally ill.

I don't think they are skirting round the fact. Moving someone to a hospice suggests there is little the medics can do to intervene and prolong life.

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By *essiCouple
over a year ago

suffolk

Hospices are invaluable when a loved one needs that extra care only they can give them..

my sister was diagnosed with lung cancer which then ripped right through her body, the care she received daily along with the massages to ease her leg pain helped her to come back home albeit briefly and for that I’m forever grateful

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