Its immoral and horrific. My grandpa's wife (remarried) passed not too long ago. She passed because they kept juggling her back and forth between skilled nursin

Its immoral and horrific. My grandpa's wife (remarried) passed not too long ago. She passed because they kept juggling her back and forth between skilled nursing, hospital, and hospice. She couldn't speak or communicate effectively because of a medical condition. Hospital marked her as NPO (no food, trouble swallowing), discharged her without resolving that back to skilled nursing (still NPO), and she went more than 10 days without any food or drink aside from saline IV, just waiting. It took a family member visiting and researching what NPO was on the chart, the gaunt look, and threatening a lawsuit before they finally took action and gave her a feeding tube (back to the hospital) before the talk "its not about the Quantity, but the Quality of Life"... She didn't survive long after and passed within a month. Likely because of the sharp spike of no food, followed by food in her weakened condition. During one of my visits for another family member (different facility) I overheard one of the staff on a smoke break outside insensitively joking with co-workers that the standard care is "skill em till they kill em". I asked a friend who happened to have worked in medical/hospice, and they said its not uncommon to hear that among staff but they shouldn't have been saying that openly with patients or relatives nearby. Absolutely horrific, there are no words that do justice or communicate the horror that awaits older people in these places.