Dementia is devastating to both the patient and the family. Hospice can support family caregivers by reducing stress and providing counseling and spiritual support.

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Patients may be eligible if they are:

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• Losing the ability to speak, dress or feed oneself

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• Experiencing loss of bowel and bladder functions

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• Weight loss

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• Unable to walk or sit without support

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And in the past year has experienced one of the following:

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• aspiration pneumonia

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• pyelonephritis or other upper urinary tract infection

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• sepsis

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• multiple decubiti (stage 3-4)

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• fever recurrent after antibiotics