3 out of 4 parents of ours were hospice patients.   MIL's body was wearing out and with her dementia family decided to enroll her.   At first they said it would be a month.   Hospice took her off a few meds and she slightly improved for a few weeks.   She made it 3 months.   She was a resident at Assisted Living.   She had lived there 4 years and it was home to her.   A retired daughter moved in with her to take care of her so she could stay.    Everyday at 4:30 pm she wanted her shoes so she could get down to the dining room for supper.  Even though she couldn't walk anymore.   She was NOT told she was on hospice care.    With her dementia she would not have remembered and everytime someone would have told her or tried to reminder her she would have been upset.    She figured it out in the last 5 days.    We were so thankful the daughter could stay with her at assisted living.   Otherwise,  we would have had to put her in a nursing home and anxiety being a strange place would have killed her.   In the hospital she'd wake up and not know what was going on.  She pulled out IV's because every time she woke up she didn't understand.   The hospital had a paid employee sit there and hold her hand  even when there was a member of family there.   
No complaints here.   Just wish my father had accepted hospice sooner.   He was worried about people coming and praying over him all the time.   That is not a problem.   Another thing  Medicare pays all the bills with hospice.... except for nursing home  or home health care nursing care is needed.