Program areas at Hospice of Anchorage
In-home care: expertise, guidance, and practical support by rns, social workers, bereavement specialists, and trained volunteers for people with serious life-limiting illness and those who care for them. Includes case management, chore, and respite services. Registered clients served: 39 clients served in case management, 21 clients served in chore and respite services, and 14 served for supplemental services. Non-registered clients served through information and assistance or community outreach and education: 50,814.
Resource center: contains a loan closet of durable medical equipment and incontinence supplies, a library of hundreds of books on caregiving, grief, dementia, end of life, childrens grief, etc, an advanced directives section with all the legal end of life documents needed, and a dementia care section with robotic pets, music players, and fidget blankets. All of the resources are free and available to the community and were created as a response to the pandemic and increased stress and isolation that was brought by the pandemic. Resource center: 96 individuals served through library, 68 through dementia care, 17 for advanced directives, and 283 for loan closet for a total of 464 individuals served.
Bereavement support: individual and care group support for grieving adults offering comfort, support, and encouragement in a safe place to share, learn, and grow. Navigating the holidays campaign with 250 individuals served. 128 bereavement individuals served through mailings and phone calls.
All other programs.