Help!!! Hospice Situation

Oops 103 not 1003!

Go and visit. If she is up to the visit the helper will let you know. If she is not up to it, leave them your number so they can call when your neighbor is up to a visit.

Take her plant or some pretty flowers.

Talk about your kids, what is going on in the neighborhood.

Ask if there is something she is craving. I know my husbands grandfather liked those melt in your mouth mints. Sherbet mints they kind of dissolve in your mouth.. Ask about her family, her grand kids.. Take photos of the neighbor hood flowers, bluebonnets, corn flowers, butter cups. They look good right now.

Cut out cute articles from the paper and read then to her,. Take a CD or cassette of pretty music.. A nice hand lotion (not scented).

Also FYI.. My husbands grandfather was in hospice and at home with hospice for almost 10 YEARS! He was 1003 when he died. We would all gather and think this is it.. and he would then be fine.

Anything done with your heart, even if it it not culturally specific, I am sure she will know, that you care.

Does she have family? Pets?
I wonder how they will be cared for.
Hopefully she is not alone.

Hospice means that she is done with "curative" medical care. It is end of life care. Some people are in or have hospice for days, weeks, moths or years before they leave this earth. Your neighbor has decided or been told there is "nothing else" they can do or has chosen to preserve some quality of her life for her final time.
Sure, go visit! Ask if there's anything he needs or needs for you to do. Take a small plant, gift, etc.

Just go visit.
People in Hospoce are sometimes so lonely. If she is still mentally capable of having a conversation make it a routine to see her once a week. And Hospice doesn't mean she will die tomorrow. My grandpa is on hospice and it's been 6 months.

Just do things for her, if she has no family to do so. Mow her lawn, do her dishes. Get her some groceries.

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