Hospice
Home Hospice Care
Eligibility
- Must be diagnosed with a life-limiting condition with a prognosis of six months or less to live
- Frequent hospitalizations in the past six months
- Progressive weight loss (taking into consideration edema weight)
- Increasing weakness, fatigue, and somnolence
- A change in cognitive and functional abilities
- Compromised Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) such as eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring/walking, and continence
- Deteriorating mental abilities
- Recurrent Infections
- Skin breakdown
- Specific decline in condition
