Hospice Shop - Matamata
The aims of Hospice Waikato are:
1) To provide a high quality community of caring for a client medically diagnosed as having an incurable illness with a reduced life expectancy.
2) To assist the person and family/whanau maintain a degree of mental and spiritual preparedness for death.
3) To provide education for other allied health professionals and those lay people who are either experiencing or wish to learn about death, dying and grief.
4) To promote the concept of Hospice as an integral part of a total response to a process of death and dying and investigate and develop services which support that concept.
We provide:
1) Palliative home care nursing
2) Palliative care for children and their families
3) Emotional support through illness, dying and bereavement
4) Individual support groups for bereaved family/whanau members
5) Family support volunteers for companionship or family/whanau/carer relief
6) Life review volunteers to assist patients with life review
7) Equipment, resources and library books to loan
8) Access to inpatient beds for respite or end stage care
9) Education for community groups and health professionals
10) Consultancy with other health professionals
