Caregiver Support Group
SCHC’s Community Hospice Program team is dedicated to providing compassionate, respectful and holistic care for individuals and families in Scarborough who are facing life-limiting illness and grief.
About this Program
A caregiver is someone who ensures the essential daily needs of another individual are met.
Caring for someone with a life-limiting diagnosis can be rewarding but strenuous on one’s physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual energies. Caregiver wellness is imperative in order to continue providing support for a loved one.
Our Caregiver Support Group provides caregivers a weekly break, support, and the profound reminder, “You are not alone”.
Caregiver Support Group
- Group facilitators are professionally screened and trained volunteers with caregiving experience
- Allows for the sharing of challenges, successes, and concerns in a supportive non-judgemental environment
- Provides a break from the caregiving role
- Opportunity to make lasting connections
- Equips caregivers with knowledge and tools through guest speakers and workshops
Program Details
Time – 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Date – Every Monday (except for holidays)
Location – Virtual – Registration required
- There are no user fees for participation in the Caregiver Support Group
Caregiver Support Group
- Individuals caring for someone with a Life limiting illness
- 18 years and old
- Individuals living in Scarborough and surrounding areas
- Must have access to stable internet for online calls or be willing to attend in-person events
Hospice Day program
- Individuals living with a Life limiting illness
- 18 years and old
- Individuals living in Scarborough
- Independent with activities of daily living, including medication administration
- Must have access to stable internet for online Zoom calls or be willing to attend in-person events
In-home Hospice Volunteer Program
- Individuals living with a Life limiting illness and related Caregivers
- 18 years and older
- Individuals living in Scarborough
- Open to having a trained volunteer support you in the home
- Volunteers provide emotional, social, spiritual care, and practical assistance such as companionship, caregiver respite, reading out loud, playing board games, doing arts and crafts, watching movies, assisting with writing, scrapbooking, story-telling, and other legacy work, outings, running errands or accompanying someone to the store, an appointment, religious/faith service, etc.
Contact Us
Palliative Care Coordinator – Day Hospice
Name:
Susan Endicott
Email:
HospicePalliativeCare@schcontario.ca
Phone:
(416)-642-9445 ext. 4419