Hospice at Home West Cumbria (HHWC) – Family Bereavement Services
Established in 1987, Hospice at Home West Cumbria are recognised for delivering excellent home-based palliative and end of life care. Care and support is available to those with a life-limiting illness to meet their physical, emotional, and practical needs. The only provider of adult hospice services in the local area.
Hospice at Home West Cumbria (HHWC) – Family Bereavement Services
Established in 1987, Hospice at Home West Cumbria are recognised for delivering excellent home-based palliative and end of life care. Care and support is available to those with a life-limiting illness to meet their physical, emotional, and practical needs. The only provider of adult hospice services in the local area.
The grant award provides continuation funding to cover staff salaries and running costs for Family Bereavement services for 3 years. Although HHWC operate throughout West Cumbria, this application is to support the delivery of a range of emotional wellbeing, bereavement services and complementary therapies for adults who live in the Copeland area. HHWC also provides support for their carers / families throughout their illness and bereavement support when a loved one passes away. Support will be delivered by HHWC’s professional and highly trained Family & Bereavement Services (FABS) Team, who help people through carefully developed individual plans, with regular reviews to ensure they continue to meet the needs of each person.
Service users may benefit from receiving several different types of support, helping to empower them and develop coping strategies. The team provide: 1-2-1 session’s which enable people to talk through worries, concerns, and anxieties; facilitate group sessions for individuals to talk with others in similar circumstances whilst giving and receiving support; and a range of complementary therapies to provide a soothing period away from challenging times, aid relaxation and cope with some of their symptoms.
Project Impacts
Project Impacts
- Undertake an initial assessment for every person
- Develop individualised plans for each beneficiary
- Provide flexible support, either in their own home, residential home, treatment centre, hospital, or other preferred setting,
- Hold 1:1 sessions, giving people a safe space to talk and reflect with someone outside of their immediate family or circle or friends,
- Hold regular facilitated role-specific groups (patient/carer/bereavement) for people to give and receive emotional support; share thoughts, ideas and coping strategies in a safe, confidential, inclusive environment,
- Provide a range of complementary therapies – reiki; distant reiki; therapeutic massage; breathing and relaxation; emotional freedom technique (EFT); reflexology, aroma stocks and mindfulness, especially for those who are close to the end of life.