STATE of GEORGIA HOSPICE RULES VERSION 4 Form

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okay so things like dementia which kind of represent it's a big umbrella term right so there's Alzheimer's type there's mix parkinsonism Lewy body vascular so it can represent quite a large bin of conditions and so I'll I'll get into that a little and then other sort of these mushy diagnoses of adult failure to thrive kind of general frailty and multi comorbidities so when do you think about considering hospice or broaching the topic of Hospice with your patients or their family members in these situations and what I'm gonna focus on today actually is going to be the basic hospice criteria because if you don't meet the criteria even if you introduce the topic your patient might not actually get admitted to hospice and I think that's an important thing to keep in mind so that you're not offering something that then that sounds wonderful to a family who might be rather desperate and hearing about all these wonderful services and then them not being able to get it so there's certain thing