Dad not dying in the hospices timeframe

[OneRealOchreHiker]

The hospice have called today and are coming to see DF and I on Friday to discuss his ongoing care. He currently has a full time carer but they want to discuss this as funding was only for 3 months and that time is now up. DF is iller now than when they set it up. Can they withdraw funding / carers? I’m currently panicking that we will have no carers or be back to two 10 minute visits a day and how am I going to manage with working full time. Has anyone experience with this?

Some experience, in that we were told when my darling Dad was admitted that they can only keep patients whose decline is days rather than weeks or months.
If he wasn’t declining quickly enough he would have been moved to a nursing home- we knew there’s no way he could have been at home as it would have been too much for my mum.
They said not to worry about it as it was their job to sort the nursing home.
In the end he died 2 weeks after admission.
If your Dad has full time care at home it sounds like he needs a nursing home.
Just push back a bit and also try to spin decisions out for a few weeks.

We're you advised when the help was given that there was a 3 month limit?

I don’t think it said it in the paperwork actually, I need to look at it again. He didn’t seem that bad to us 3 months ago and we didn’t ask for the full time carer as he was on twice a day visits which were sort of working but they thought he needed a full time carer. Now he’s loads worse and has a large pressure sore to contend with as well. I think he would be better in a nursing home as I think he needs more than 1 carer can give him.