Category Archives: Failure to Thrive

A friend asked me to visit her “dying father.”

For this first hospice blog entry I will recount a most unusual, yet gratifying case. A friend asked me to visit her ”dying father.”  During a visit to this man’s home a month ago, I found a thin, 86-year-old gentleman who in the previous 6 months had experienced about a 35-pound weight loss.  He was suffering from some dementia.  He…