:) Carefully.
HOSPICE is comfort care, usually within 6 months of remaining life. Avoid foods, feeding practices and schedules that contribute to discomfort. Individualized and you may have to read the person if they can't talk or express themselves, or communicate their likes and dislikes. HOSPICE pros can help fill in the unknowns.
They can help you with clues about positioning and what foods may or may not be appropriate based on the individual situation. Texture and softness may be important. A food they may handle OK today, may not be so in a few weeks, so comfort care should progress along with situation.
Death by choking is a risk, as is aspiration pneumonia. Both of which may be uncomfortable. A very weak person may fall asleep with food in their mouth, or may forget how to swallow, or may not remember how to suck from a straw.
In general, a time to set aside any notion of health eating in favor of comfort.
There are a whole slew of diseases that progressively weaken the body but don't themselves lead to death, and where death instead comes with untreatable pressure sores, starvation, choking or aspiration pneumonia.
