Centre Home Care and Hopsice is a mixed bag. The ...

Centre Home Care and Hopsice is a mixed bag. The CNA and therapists that provided therapy for my wife were generally terrific. I have no complaints. But the hospice care was awful. The primary nurse we dealt with was kind, but in my view, incompetent. We were given a packet of end of life drugs (the 'comfort pack") and no explanation in any detail of what they were for, when we should use them and in what dosage. I don't know, maybe I just wasn't hearing what she was saying; but if I wasn't, neither was my adult son.

As a result, we did not start giving my wife the drugs early on when they would have helped tremendously and greatly reduced the stress at home for her, and for me and my son who were caregivers. The unneeded stress resulted in lots of acrimony between my wife and I on the last real day I could talk to her. I will never forgive them for that.

It wasn't until the last day of her life that we finally got nurses that made it clear about what we should do and why. And the nurse present at my wife's death was simply amazing.

But the final insult to injury was the social worker called me within three hours of my wife's death to ask me to take a *#&#*#&# survey about her death. Are you kidding me?

If you are in need of hospice services, I would look elsewhere.