Elder diagnosis choosing no treatment

The difference between my dads and your dad is the bone involvement. I can understand why he might not value HT as a treatment to stop the cancer but I am amazed that his doctors haven't explained to him how important HT could be to reducing his pain. Men don't die of bone mets but the pain becomes excruciating and cannot be totally eradicated by pain relief meds so the normal ending is that thy slip away to a coma induced by the ever-increasing levels of morphine. It is different for men with soft tissue mets who are more likely to have organ failure and not necessarily much pain.

If you believe he has SCC, you should phone an ambulance without delay.

Thank you both for your replies. He had been taking Lupron and bicalutamide, but they were not effective. 

I have spoken with Home Health and they are preparing for care at a respite house once it is too much for my mother at home. They feel we are looking at weeks to a couple of months at this point.

The bone involvement was recent. I may not have been clear. He only agreed to the hormone treatments after the prostate enlarged to the point he had to have an on board catheter. That was stopped when the CT showed that he had bone mets and placed on hospice care. Talked to my Mother at lunchtime and he fell getting out of his recliner, taking her down with him. They are both ok overall. Just anther sign he is getting weaker. Home Health was in for a regular visit shortly after. I have not spoken with them yet since his fall.