Hospice is a type of health care that focuses mainly on interventions that do not hasten death and neither does it prolong life. It focuses on comfort and dignity rather than cure. More often than not, there are multiple diseases that coincide making the condition terminal. Typically, aggressive treatments that are designed to prolong life are avoided and discontinued. Therefore, dialysis and the likes are discontinued.

There are cases however wherein some of the treatments of the diseases are continued but this goes under careful consideration.

For a senior, hospice is a place to enjoy the remainder of their lives and not to think about the pain of aggressive medications. This is probably the time for them to enjoy sitting in front of their television without thinking of anything other than the show itself. This is their time and personally, I would prefer this over a series of painful treatments.