hasn’t been for a while she doesn’t know she has c but there is no treatment so is it even a good idea to tell her , as she also has dementia.
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I’m sorry Ish.
My grandmother, who I live with, is not well either. She doesn’t have dementia but has a lot of health issues.
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I’m sorry too @Ish
My 91 year old father has a lot of health issues
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@TheCanuk @Wave I live with my grandmother and I was helping to sort out al lot of things like regular hospital visits and transport but now palliative have taken over and its a lot of help. im sorry you guys also dealing with this, its really tough watching them go through this
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I was thinking about getting palliative care for my father too @Ish
What exactly do they do for the patient?
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not sure how it is where you are but here they help to make my grandmother comfortable, provide meds if she’s in any pain and instead of sending her to hospital they send her to hospice to keep her comfortable while having treatment. they also sending out a carer for her overnight everyday and two times a day.
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Yes I think it’s different here where I live.
I think they’d send a nurse and home health aides but he would still go to the hospital, I’m not sure though.
Glad it’s helping your grandmother @Ish
Thanks for the info
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@Ish , I’m so sorry. I think not telling her is a good idea in her condition. Hugs!
@Wave , where I live in the US, when my father in law entered palliative care he was given a choice of staying at home or in a hospice center.
Once that decision is reached, they no longer go to the hospital.
He chose home. We had a nurse come every couple days and give us pain meds to give him every 2 hours, and the home health care workers came to give him baths. They also sent a hospital bed to the home so he didn’t have to climb stairs to get to his bed.
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Yes at this point I don’t think he needs palliative care.
He’s actually feeling a bit better
But we are getting home health aides and most likely a nurse to visit a few times during the week.
Thanks @LilyoftheValley
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We also got a hospital bed downstairs and some adaptions in the bathroom. If she can to hospice to have iron transfusions and things like that they’ll do it there and bring her back home. Otherwise sometimes hospitals can’t be avoided.
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Thanks for the info @Ish
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Yeah it’s just going to make her even worse if she found out. 
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Thank you @Truemist8
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Yeah, that’s what I’d worry about
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