[jnieman]

My mother-in-law is 94 and in Michigan. She has been in failing health for some time now and is in a lot of pain most of the time and very weak. Sometimes too weak to talk on the phone. Her family doc sent her to pain management and they are not controlling her pain. Some days she is too weak to get out of bed. She has told us over and over that the end is near and has even been taken by ambulance to the hospital twice thinking she was dying. She sleeps a lot and doesn't do much else. She has heart issues and has had luekemia for years and is on about 15 meds. Can someone familiar with all of this tell me should we insist that her family doctor put her in the hospice home care program so maybe they can control her pain and let her live her life out of pain? I know nothing about how it all works and neither does the rest of the family. They have not mentioned doing it but my sister said she should be under hospice care. Her family doctor no longer will prescribe any pain meds now that pain mgmt is involved.