Searching for Hospice / Palliative Care

A full service and comprehensive cancer treatment and research centre.

Individual and family grief support throughout palliative phase of illness * post-death follow-up available to link with community supports

Support individuals affected by a life-threatening illness [and their families], to prepare for and cope with death by providing compassionate presence, emotional and practical support, and education

• Volunteer Visiting in home, hospital, local residential hospices, and long-term care facilities
  
• Bereavement Walking Groups (Sep-Jun in Kitchener-Waterloo)
  
• Day Away Programs in Kitchener and Cambridge
  
• Individual and Family Counseling
  
• Friends and Relatives Support Group
  
• Resource Library
  
• Hair Salon Services
  
• Complementary Therapies

Non-medical homecare agency catering exclusively to the needs of senior citizens and older adults

• Driver companions
• Live-in companions
• Overnight assistance
• House cleaners
• Drop-in companions
• Foot care services

Locally owned, non-franchised, independent Home Care Agency

• Services available in own home, in Retirement Homes, in Long term Care Homes, in Hospitals
  
• All services are directed and overseen by Nurse Case Managers
  
• Nursing care services
  
• Personal care services
  
• Home making services
  
• Companion care services
  
• Overnight care
  
• 24 hour care
  
• Live-in care
  
• Respite care services
  
• Medication management
  
• Transportation services
  
• Special needs including; Palliative care, Dementia care, Parkinson's care, hospital discharge, stroke recovery care and more
  

Provides home care services to seniors by staff who are bonded and insured. Services include:

• Hourly or 24 hr Care for Seniors
  
• Dementia and Alzheimer's Care
  
• In-Home Stroke Care
  
• Parkinson's Care
  
• Palliative Care
  
• Post-hospital Care for Seniors

Services provided during care can include:

• Light housekeeping
  
• Meal preparation
  
• Bathing
  
• Dressing
  
• Encouragement for daily exercise
  
• Mobility assistance
  
• Transportation for errands and appointments
  
• Companionship

Residential hospice providing quality palliative care in a home-like setting for individuals living with - and dying from - a terminal illness.

Residential hospice providing quality palliative care in a home-like setting for individuals living with - and dying from - a terminal illness.

Licensed health care services include:

• nursing care (RN, RPN)
• palliative care
• physical therapy and rehab services
• dementia services and care
• homemaking and personal care services
• respite care

Services include:
• care companion - housekeeping, meal prep, shopping, errands, transportation
• personal care - support with activities of daily living plus care companion activities
• nursing - assessments, medication management, wound care, foot care
• one hour to 24-hour care
• one-to-one in-hospital, in-facility support
• palliative care specialists
• dementia specialists
• transitional support - hospital to home, long-term care
• continence products available for purchase and delivery
• services also provided in assisted living communities, nursing homes, hospitals, hospice
• care for clients with special health care needs
• Motor Vehicle Accident Support Program

COVID-19 Update: Call prior to visiting. Visit website for program updates; virtual programs available.

Programs include support for palliative and bereavement clients:

Grief and Bereavement Support:

• Adult Grief Support Group
• Spousal Loss Support Group
• Art Therapy Programs
• Weekly Bereavement Walking Group
• Volunteer Companionship Program
• Grief and Bereavement Workshops

Palliative Support:

• Weekly Palliative Day Program
• Visiting Volunteers

Wellness Program:

• massage
• weekly yoga
• lending library
• reiki
• bereavement walking group

Services include:

• personal support services (including personal care, homemaking)
• respite shifts of care
• hospice at home
• specialized services
• nursing care

Offers long term, short term, respite, vacation, convalescent, and palliative stays.
Adult day program.

COVID-19 Update: Call prior to visiting. Visit website for program updates; virtual programs available.

Programs include support for palliative and bereavement clients:

Grief and Bereavement Support:

• Adult Grief Support Group
• Spousal Loss Support Group
• Art Therapy Programs
• Weekly Bereavement Walking Group
• Volunteer Companionship Program
• Grief and Bereavement Workshops

Palliative Support:

• Weekly Palliative Day Program
• Visiting Volunteers

Wellness Program:

• massage
• weekly yoga
• lending library
• reiki
• bereavement walking group

Family practice and internal medicine, disease prevention and intervention, and specialty consultations when indicated. Services include:

* newborn, adolescent, adult, and older adult care

* shared prenatal care, early pregnancy care

* pediatrics

* physicals

* mental health services

* chronic disease guidance

* nutrition counselling

* pharmacist support

* immunizations and vaccinations

* minor surgery

* general dermatology

* palliative care

* work related injuries / WSIB forms

* social services forms

Nurse managers oversee all cases, personal support, and nursing care. Focuses on the whole family and provides care for all ages. Services include support with Alzheimer's and dementia, degenerative diseases, respiratory care, specialized nursing care, cancer, brain injury and end of life care.

Personal Care:

• meal planning, preparation
• bathing, general hygiene
• dressing assistance
• medication reminder, prescription pickup
• companion service to health care appointments

Home Care:

• light housework
• laundry / change linens
• groceries, general shopping
• plant care
• assistance with phone calls

Companionship:

• play games / books on DVD
• attend events
• arrange for friends to visit
• walk outside, exercise

Facility care also available.
Qualified and experienced care for Alzheimer's and dementia, brain injury and palliative care.

Offers client specific care plan and ongoing assessments. Services include home care such as:

• personal care
• mobility assistance
• meal preparation
• light housekeeping
• laundry
• grocery shopping

Services also include:

• accompaniment to appointments
• after hospital care
• respite care and palliative care
• support for individuals with special needs

Residential care with private and basic rooms. Services include:

• 76 beds
• 24-hour nursing and personal care
• access to a doctor and other health professionals
• restorative care
• recreation therapy program

Programs and services include:

• pharmacy and laboratory services
• personalized plan of care with assistance of social service worker
• dementia program, specialized dementia care
• palliative care
• physiotherapy program
• oxygen therapy management
• social events and seasonal celebrations involving family participation
• music and horticulture programs
• regular outings using Wellington Terrace wheelchair accessible van
• access to Wellington County Museum and Library

Visitor restrictions are in place at Groves Memorial Community Hospital to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission. All visitors must be free of COVID-19 symptoms; have not have travelled outside of Canada in the previous 14 days or had contact with a sick person who has travelled; have not had close contact with a person who has/is suspected to have COVID-19; must wear a hospital-provided procedure mask during the visit; enter/exit through designated doors; adhere to infection control practices and wear the sticker identifying their successful screening process.


Patients attending the Emergency Department are limited to ONE support person.

Obstetrical patients are limited to ONE partner in care during their stay.


Patient services include:

• ambulatory care clinic
• diagnostic imaging
• diabetes education
• emergency department
• geriatric emergency management team
• hospital elder life care program
• Ontario Breast Screening Program
• obstetrics
• out-patient oncology unit
• palliative care
• physiotherapy
• pulmonary rehabilitation
• speech pathology
• surgery
• virtual family visit
• virtual patient visit

Facility offers:

* 87-bed long-term care home - residential care private rooms, semi-private rooms, and four-person basic accommodation

* 42-bed retirement home - private, semi-private accommodation

* 24-hour nursing and personal care

* access to a doctor and other health professionals



Services include:

* restorative care program

* registered dietitian

* dental and foot care clinics

* eye clinic

* physiotherapy and occupational therapy services

* social and recreational activities

* intergenerational programs



Residential care offers respite and short stays.

Nursing home offers palliative care, Alzheimer and dementia care.

Sakura House is a Residential Hospice providing exceptional pain and symptom management and spiritual, emotional and psychological support to individuals and their family circle in the last 3 months of life * 10 bedroom residential hospice * 24 hour End-of-Life Care for people who can no longer manage in their own homes * palliative care physicians, RNs, RPNs and PSWs * volunteer, social work and pastoral care support * grief and bereavement support - 1:1 or groups

For family, individual and group grief support contact Anne-Marie Wallace-Phillips 519-537-8515 ext 1018

COVID-19 Update:
Due to COVID restrictions, support is being provided virtually, either by phone or via ZOOM. As restrictions lift, we will slowly begin to offer face to face support safely.

Offering peer based bereavement support for children, teens and adults. Hospice volunteers also available to support individuals living with a life-limiting illness as well as support for caregivers

In-home health care services including nursing and personal support * services provided by nurses and personal support workers

• Alzheimer's care
  
• senior companionship
  
• personal care
  
• palliative care
  
• respite care

In-home health care services and support with an emphasis on Happier Aging * services include companionship, housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, transportation, errands, assistance with activities of daily living, medication reminders, bathing, foot care, complex nursing services, postpartum, respite and palliative care