Bendigo Community Palliative Care service works with people who have a life threatening illness, their families, carers and the community in promoting and providing choices in quality palliative care. It is a community-based multidisciplinary team, which liaises and works in conjunction with other community-based services to provide holistic care.
The service aims to improve the quality of life of individuals and their families facing the problems associated with a life-threatening illness. This includes the prevention and/or relief of suffering by means of early identification, assessment and treatment of symptoms.
Help may be physical, emotional or spiritual. Palliative Care recognises the necessity to change the focus from cure, to comfort. The Service works closely with the client's own general practitioner, specialist, District Nursing Service and other community agencies.
Bendigo Community Palliative Care Service is part of the Home Nursing and Support Services at Bendigo Health.
Bendigo Community Palliative Care Service provides advice and support to residents of the City of Greater Bendigo, and to the Shire of Loddon in conjunction with local service providers.
What the Service Offers:
-- Co-ordination of services
-- Symptom management
-- Education
-- 24 hour nursing support and advice
-- A range of equipment for loan at no charge
-- Volunteers to provide companionship for the client and to give practical support to the family
-- A comprehensive Bereavement Program in individual and/or group settings
-- Multidisciplinary approach -for social, spiritual and physical needs
-- Day support - Chum House - Socially focused, not medically focused.
Hours: On-call service - 24 hours, 7 days a week