Hospiz Bedburg Bergheim Elsdorf e.V.
We are anmbulanter hospice service, provide psychosocial support for people on their last journey through life and their relatives. Three full-time staff are responsible for counseling, administration and coordination of the accompaniments.
About 32 trained volunteers visit people where they live: At home or in facilities of all kinds. Six trained Trauerbegleiter:innen also take care of bereaved relatives and other people in mourning (eg in the mourning café or in individual meetings).
The board of the association is also volunteers (currently four people) and responsible for personnel, finances, representative tasks.
We also run a grief chat for young people: www.doch-etwas-bleibt.de The chat is represented on Vostel in a proprietary account and currently has 14 volunteers.
About Hospiz Bedburg Bergheim Elsdorf e.V.
Target group(s)
People in the last phase of life
Their relatives
People in mourning
Consultants in domestic care of a seriously ill or elderly person
Founding year
Paid staff
Volunteers
Funding
Dying assistance is funded by health insurance - so not financed, but supported.
All other areas - all forms of other counseling, grief counseling, grief chat, ... is financed solely by donations and foundation funds, which must be applied for every year.
Objectives
The goal of outpatient hospice work is to accompany people in their last phase of life.
We offer psychosocial counseling, relief for relatives, advice on networks of palliative and nursing care, up to "simply" being with no longer responsive persons. Our volunteers receive sound training and continuing education for this purpose and are accompanied in regular supervisions.
The grief counseling is open not only to surviving relatives of persons accompanied by us, but to all who inquire with us. We have a grief café once a month, a grief talk series once a year, individual talks are possible at any time. We also train volunteers for this, one of the full-time staff is also available as a grief counselor.
But we also organise parties, memorial celebrations, meetings of volunteers and offer information events, readings and film evenings, etc., to be visible in public. We also need volunteers for this.
Your support helps
...people on their last stage of life and their relatives.
...the work of the board - at the moment especially urgent: support in fundraising, help in planning and realization of events
