Hmm, should flag this up, be careful what you wish for.
In 2014 my mother went into Epsom General Hospital after care home neglect (it's a long story and I post about it on another thread) and when in a private ward was fast-tracked for free NHS Continuing Healthcare, and later discharged, 'given' three months to live.
We hadn't even asked for it - isn't that nice?
Thing is, the moment she went on that we found it very hard to get anyone to give her anything to drink.
It's true that I myself at the hospital had to take time off to oh-so gradually get her sipping on a spoon, then a straw, and then eating a bit while the staff did nothing along those lines.
But even when we had turned a corner and she was drinking a litre a day, oddly, nobody offered to take over.
And after she was discharged, we ran up against real oddness whenever we tried to get the care home to give Sheila drink. We just didn't know about the Liverpool Care Pathway programme, where the elderly are killed via dehydration and malnutrition.
Since then it's been scrapped, supposedly, but the new NICE guidelines have been slammed as even worse. Basically, the guestimate how much longer your parent has, then place them on covert end-of-life care which is a self-fulfilled prophecy, because they won't give them much drink.
This works a treat with anyone who as an 'incurable' illness such as end-stage Cancer, or something like dementia or Parkinson's which is also technically 'incurable' so on a legal note comes under the same category even though they can hang on in there and enjoy life.
Lastly, if they can get 'dementia' on the medical notes, in particular 'severe dementia' even though it's not true, you can't contradict that because you won't be allowed to see the medical notes if you didn't know to get LPA in Health and Welfare, so they can create a fictional narrative about your parent that you aren't privy to. And you aren't then the decision maker for your parent anyway, at that point the State has its hooks in them, and the State benefits from your parent's death, it simply saves them money. Legally, if you didn't get LPA in Health and Welfare, then they become under the control of the State once they've lost mental capacity, or are deemed to have done, it's a nebulous area. By 'State' I mean the local NHS CCG and local authority eg Social Services, who will be working in tandem with each other to cut costs.
For that reason, I came to regard the NHS Continuing Healthcare as the 'freebie with strings' along the lines of yep, we're going to kill you parent but you can have this one on us. We'll pay.
I mean, otherwise why would they just hand it out unbidden, for nothing, when usually it's so hard to attain?
For the next few years, my sister and I had to forgo our lives and careers to attend the care home daily to give our mother drink, while all our appeals on this issue to the care home not only met with deaf ears, but drew sly retaliation and counterattack safeguarding concerns raised against us, the usual State strategy of victim-blaming and misdirection, 'It's not us, it's you...' type of thing.