This service is available for carers of all patients involved with Overgate Hospice.
A carer is someone who provides help and support to a partner, relative, friend or neighbour, who could not manage without their help. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability. You may be a wife, husband, partner, friend, parent, son or daughter.
Aims of the Carers' Group
• To provide information and support
• To reduce your anxieties associated with caring for a loved one
• To provide a meeting place so you can meet others in similar situations to discuss coping
strategies etc.
What is available?
• Specialist nursing advice
• Peer support
• Programmed information and discussions
• Complementary therapies
• Relaxation
When does the group meet?
Our Carers Group meets every other Tuesday evening from 6-8:30pm in the Day Hospice.
For more information please call in to see us or call 01422 379151 and ask to speak to a member of the Day Hospice team.