Dying, caregiving and grieving are three of life’s greatest challenges, and the Community Hospice is ready to help
Nanaimo Community Hospice has been serving the community for over 30 years, and was Canada’s first community-based nonprofit charitable Hospice. The organization believes that the dying should experience dignity and peace, their caregivers should get the help they need, and their friends and family should be supported in their grief.
The Community Hospice offers a wide range of programs, including Hospice support on the Palliative Care Unit at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, adult grief counselling and group support, and counselling and support programs for children and youth.
But Hospice House, where the community group is housed, is bursting at the seams and a bigger home is urgently needed. A capital campaign is underway to Expand the Heart of Hospice.
Wendy Pratt is the executive director at Nanaimo Community Hospice. She’s the leader of “a strong team working hard at providing services to help vulnerable individuals, dealing with grief and loss, get back to being functional citizens.”
Anne Judson is a client-based Hospice volunteer whose husband and father both died within weeks of each other in 1992. She has been a volunteer in the hospice field for over 15 years, 11 of them with Nanaimo Community Hospice.
We’re joined in the studio by Wendy Pratt and Anne Judson.
