Why Hospice Care Could Benefit Your Loved One Sooner Than You Think

Bettina’s Dad Paul (89 Year's), a Once Robust and Active Man, Was Getting Weaker Every Day Due to Heart Failure. They Met with a Surgeon to Consider His Options but the Proposed Medical Intervention Was Fraught with Complications and No Guarantee of Being Able to Return Him to His One Passion: Square Dancing. He Opted Instead to Continue Taking Medications to Treat the Problem and Ponder How He Could Hide His Increasing Weakness So as Not to Be a Burden to Bettina. Recently, a Friend Asked If She Had Considered Looking into Hospice. Bettina Was Taken Aback. She Always Thought That Hospice Was Just for People Who Were Terminally Ill …