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However hospice only does about 1% of your loved ones care, which means that 99% will fall on you or whoever else is taking care of your loved one.
The hospice itself will provide only an aid for a bedbath two to three times a week, an RN visit once a week, Medications, hospital equipment where needed (bed and beside commode and etc) medical management for end of life care, counselor or clergy on request, social worker when required. As to speak to the social worker to find options for private hire of aid if there are any funds or to find options if there are not.
This is a terrible problem. In "old Hospice" before the hedgefund managers took over these money makers, there used actually to be options for more help, and used to be some in facility hospice. You may be down, yourself to placement in a nursing home where hospice can still provide the little they do provide these days. Medicare pays them enormous sums, and they get by with doing very little now compared to the old models.
I would discuss your needs with hospice so you get options. I recently as a year and one half ago helped a friend die at home. She had to hire two gals to do in home care 12 hour shifts EVERY DAY at 20.00 an hour and happy to get them at that price; also provided meals brought in to them. It was ENORMOUSLY expensive.
I wish you the best of luck, but this is Hospice today. As an RN I was so thankful when we got it for our country from across the pond in the UK where the model began. But it is a pitiful remnant of what it was now that the corporate entities have hold of it. I wish you the very best of luck.