Day Hospice

Day Hospice

Day Care at Primrose Hospice is provided in a modern building designed to create a warm, relaxed environment which can often help to reduce feelings of anxiety and isolation.

Our focus is to maximise each person’s quality of life and to support people adjusting to their illness. Meeting others with similar experiences and living in a balance with their cancer can be enormously helpful in this process.

Our care team can monitor problems and symptoms and will work closely with a GP, District Nurses and Consultant.

Patients who come to Primrose Day Hospice have access to a number of different professionals, including:

  • Qualified nurses, led by a Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Complementary Therapies
  • Access to all parts of our Family Support Service
  • Access to the Consultant in Palliative Medicine (by appointment)

Patients are offered a place in the Day Hospice for a number of reasons, including:

  • Pain and symptom management
  • Rehabilitation
  • Emotional support
  • Respite for a carer

Whilst at Primrose you can also participate in arts and crafts, although for many people the simple enjoyment of relaxing in company is enough.

A Reminiscence group is run on a rolling programme. The purpose of reminiscence is to use past memories in a positive way to express feelings and reaffirm a sense of identity, uniqueness, self-worth and accomplishment. Sessions are run on different days of the week.

Support is offered by many volunteers during the day, and without realising it you will quickly become a part of a friendly community that has an often unspoken understanding of the journey you are taking.

Physiotherapy

Patients have access to a fully equipped physiotherapy room and qualified physiotherapist at Primrose Hospice. The apparatus, which includes a rehabilitation plinth, parallel bars, gym balls, weights and mobility aids, can help towards maintaining function and independence. Physiotherapy sessions can improve mobility, reduce breathlessness and other respiratory symptoms, assist neurological problems and relieve pain.

Complementary Therapies

Receiving a diagnosis of a life threatening illness, such as Cancer, can be very distressing. The Primrose Hospice offers a complementary therapy service which works alongside the patient's medical treatments that they may be currently receiving. Complementary Therapy can help the patient to relax and enables the patient to cope with the stresses of their diagnosis.

Primrose works in partnership with Freshwinds, a charity which provides an integrated medicine approach to complementary therapies, for those living with a life threatening illness. Click here to visit Freshwinds’ own website.

All patients accessing the Complementary Therapy Service at Primrose will be assessed by the Therapy Coordinator and appropriate complementary therapy service will be offered that suits the individual's needs within a safe environment.

All of our complementary therapists are fully qualified practitioners who give their time as volunteers. Therapies are free of charge although we do suggest a £5 donation towards the cost of homeopathic remedies.

Therapies available:

  • Reflexology
  • Aromatherapy
  • Homeopathy
  • Reiki
  • Indian Head Massage
  • Therapeutic Massage

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