Often
the emotional pain and stresses associated with advanced illness or death
are as difficult to overcome as physical symptoms. Victoria Hospice offers
a wide range of compassionate and skilled counselling services for patients
and families facing death and loss. For example, our counsellors provide
help and support:
| • | on our Palliative Response Team - a nurse and a counsellor provide short-term crisis consultation to registered Victoria Hospice patients and families in their homes |
| • | on our 17-bed in-patient unit at Royal Jubilee Hospital’s Richmond Pavilion |
| • | in the community, where patients and family members can arrange to talk to our counsellors about their experiences facing illness, death and loss |
| • | through family bereavement counselling and support groups for one year following the death of a registered Hospice patient |
| • | with several helpful information brochures about grief and loss |
Counselling
services are available to patients and their family members one-on-one,
by telephone or in person, and in group settings.
In addition, Victoria Hospice staff can help facilitate practical arrangements
such as funeral planning or settling the
estate.
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To
learn more about Victoria Hospice counselling services, please
call (250) 370-8715, Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.
Pacific Standard Time.
For bereavement support information, please call (250) 370-8868, Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST |
"Thank you for the kindness and caring you gave to my mother during her stay at Victoria Hospice. I received your pamphlet 'Dealing With Grief' and found it very helpful. It made me realize that I'm 'normal'! Our family was blessed to have you in our time of need."
Read the latest issue of our Bereavement Newsletter
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