Our Approach to Care
Hospice of the Conejo provides comfort and dignity to those with a life-threatening illness and on-going support to loved ones. Hospice support focuses on all aspects of life and well-being: social, emotional, and spiritual. There is no age restriction; anyone in the last stages of life is eligible for hospice services. All services are provided at no cost.
Family Service Coordinators maintain close contact with each client and family with visits and phone calls. They also educate clients and families about resources and coordinate community service agencies.
Trained volunteers provide emotional and social support, as well as, respite. Volunteers are committed to once a week visits and may continue support during the grief process.
More than 100 highly-trained Hospice of the Conejo community case volunteers go into the homes of those whose life-limiting illness no longer responds to curative treatment. We don’t do hands-on care. Instead, through weekly visits, volunteers provide companionship and support to the entire family. This might include going on a walk, reading a book aloud, going over photograph albums, providing a brief respite for a caregiver, and much more.
NO ONE DIES ALONE (NODA)
A unique corps of volunteers is also trained as vigil volunteers. Through a special partnership with Los Robles Hospital, hospice workers in our NODA program sit at the bedside of people for whom death is imminent and who would probably otherwise die alone because they have no family or friends nearby. NODA volunteers are available 24/7.
Hospice of the Conejo accepts donations of wheelchairs, adult diapers, walkers, non-medical nutritional supplements which we in turn provide to those who are in need.
Burial assistance funds are available to assist with burial costs in cases of dire need.
Hospice of the Conejo is a grief support center that provides 45 group support meetings every month. All ages are served—from young parents who have lost a child in pregnancy and infancy, children, teens, parents, adults, seniors who have lost a spouse, as well as a Spanish-speaking group. These groups have been in place for many years—20, 25 for some.
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