Day Care

The Day Care enables patients to interact with others in a similar situation and provides the following:

• Offer a specialist Multidisciplinary Team approach of care to patients living at home and enhance the supports already provided by their primary health care team. 
• To support and offer respite for the carer.
• Provide time to listen and converse, to address the feeling of isolation often felt by a patients learning to live with a life-limiting illness, by making the patient feel a valued member of a small group. Also enables the patients to establish relationships with other patients if they so wish. 
• To provide an opportunity for the patient to participate in art and craft activities if he/she so wishes and to encourage the patient to develop interests and talents which he/she may not have had the time or the inclination to do prior to their illness.
• Benefit from a medical review if deemed necessary. 
• Access to other services including physiotherapy, aromatherapy, occupational therapy, hairdressing and chiropody. 
• Access to our Medical Social Work Department and Pastoral Care Team. 
• To act  as an introduction and a link to the Inpatient Unit in order that concerns and anxieties can be alleviated if an admission becomes necessary. 
• To provide ‘routine’ and the security of knowing that the Hospice is always there.