Three Signs Caregivers Need to Know

1. The disease has progressed to the point that there’s no cure, and you’ve (and your loved one) has decided to manage the pain and be comfortable and not actively seek to treat the disease.

2. You and your loved one chooses to forego any further testing or hospitalizations–by this choice, you allow the dying process to happen naturally. Body functions/organs may begin to diminish.

3. You’re ready to begin to let go, say good-bye and follow the oath of hospice, which is to “neither hinder, not hasten death.”

I knew my mother was ready for hospice before any of her medical team suggested it.

I had asked my mother’s doctor about hospice (Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
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