My mom is 93. 3 weeks ago she started to not feel well. Turns out she had a UTI and was treated with antibiotics. She still felt I'll and wanted to stay in bed and sleep , which is not like her. She started losing appetite and just slept pretty much around the clock. Which I then put 24-hour round the clock aids in her home as I live in another town, over 200 miles from her. I told the aid to tell her if she didn't start eating I would call paramedics. She told the aid if paramedics come she will not go to the hospital. So after one week of her staying in bed and not eating I drove to her home. I called hospice and got them in place while I was down there. It has now been over 3 weeks that she is still in bed and not eating. She is drinking water and will have a cup of tea. She has a bedside commode which she gets up and uses to urinate a tiny bit a couple of times of day , has not moved her bowels in over two weeks as there is no food in there at all. She has lost a lot of weight in 3 weeks. The hospice doctor can't find anything wrong on the outside everything seems to be okay and her lungs are still clear even though she's been laying in bed for 3 weeks. She is alert while laying in bed she will talk to you but she has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's so she talks a lot that doesn't make sense. My question is I don't know if she will recover from this or if she is at end of life?
Hospice should be able to guide you about this.
my thoughts is yes, your mom is transitioning to end of life. My mom started sleeping more, no interest in food or liquids. My mom went pretty quickly in her decline ….