my father went from 8 hrs of companionship to hospice awareness of care 24 hrs, I was able to do the personal caregiving........ making breakfast, lunch and dinner, help shower , dress and transportation to dialysis and doctor appointments. Hospice appointed me with threat, that I have to be with my father 24 hours and if I leave him alone the possibility of being arrested for abandonment care for a senior.I get paid by the VA of current affairs for 40 hrs. a week and no overtime. I told the Hospice team I don't want that responsibilities and was adjusted my job description to making the new Hos[ice team aware of any troubling situation . I worked myself to the best of my ability and was garnished wages because my father wasn't sure on his admittance to hospital and discharge and put my hours for that week and without notice they garnished my pay and I don't know how to handle this professionally and morally.
The agency did not like that she was living alone and gave me a hard time about it. We were trying to get
mother into a nursing home at that point. I told the social worker that if the agency continued to give us a hard time about this then we did not want their services. I was not about to move back to be there full time and my sisters who lived locally did not want to do any more than what they had been doing.
Hospice finally stopped insisting on this. A few months later we were able to get her into the nursing home and that problem went away.