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: 33 clients served in case management, clients serviced in chore-15 & respite-14 services, and 16 served for supplemental services. Non-registered clients served through information & assistance or community outreach and education: 31,162.
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: 84 individuals served through library, 42 through dementia care, 24 for advanced directives, and 168 for loan closet for a total of 318 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. 182 cutomers provided with grief/bereavement support via event, printed resource, mailings and phone calls.