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Isabel Hospice Annual Review 2010/11
Day Hospice Highlights of the year:
• The Benefits Advisor now attends the Day Hospice and the satellite Day Hospices on a regular basis.
• We have started a new forum for patients that have been discharged from Day Hospice. They meet on a monthly basis and through the forum, we are able to monitor their symptoms and therefore get the most appropriate care for them as soon as possible. • At Christmas the staff and volunteers put on a mini cabaret performance for the patients/carers. • A pilot study was undertaken regarding the therapeutic value of expressive writing with selected patients. From this we are planning to work with the University of Hertfordshire to undertake another piece of research around the therapeutic benefits of expressive writing.
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• The Pets as Therapy dogs attend the Day Hospice and the satellite hospices on a regular basis. • The Art Therapist attends the Day Hospice and runs group work art therapy. • Student District Nurses are spending time at the Day Hospice or one of the satellite units as part of their training. Elaine said “Time spen t doing arts & crafts at th e Day Hospic e in Thorle y is time I don ’t spend th inking about my ill ness. I get totally absorbed an d am produ cing things I neve r felt myself capable of” .