Providing home-like, supportive end-of-life care and respite
As your loved one approaches the end of their life, being a carer can be more challenging as emotional and physical stress increases. Rosehaven can provide you with additional support, caring for your loved one and helping you make the necessary preparations.
Our palliative care services are for people with a life limiting illness that require comfort, support and ancillary care towards end of life. Families are supported as a unit and can relax knowing that they have a warm home environment catering for all their needs. This includes, meals, washing, basic nursing care and companionship. Rosehaven works in conjunction with the Visiting Nursing Service (VNS) and Benalla Palliative Care, where clinical needs are co-ordinated by these services, and the nominated care giver to provide holistic, individualised care in accordance with the guest’s wishes. Our trained Palliative Care Volunteers and staff work closely with the primary carer and other services during the stay.
Our purpose-built facility has been designed to feel like a ‘home away from home’. We welcome family, friends and even the guest’s pet to this inclusive environment. To access our services, people can refer themselves or be referred by a doctor or other health professional.
Rosehaven is located close to the Hospital and within walking distance to Mansfield’s central amenities.
Grief is a normal response to loss. The death of a loved one is a particularly difficult experience for most people. If you’ve been caring for someone with a terminal illness, you will have been preparing yourself for the day they die yet that does not make it any easier. Grief support services provide counselling, support and education to bereaved individuals, children and families. This gives you the opportunity to talk things over with a trained professional to assist you in making sense of your feelings.
You may experience a range of intense feelings such as sadness, anxiety, relief or numbness. Grief can also cause difficultly sleeping which can lead to physical symptoms.
Rosehaven can provide follow up bereavement care and access to our facilitated bereavement support group. We can also place referrals for specialist care when required.
An Advance Care Plan is a document stating what sort of care you would (and wouldn’t) like in your last days. It can give those caring for you a greater understanding of your wishes should you be unable to convey them yourself. Do you want to be fed via a tube if you are unable to swallow? Would you like lots of visitors or only immediate family? An Advance Care Plan needs to be signed and witnessed by a doctor, however you can save time and money by creating yours and having it ready to take to your next visit to your GP.
We are able to assist with the preparation of your Advanced Care Planning.
“Advance Care Planning is about your future health and personal care. It gives you the opportunity to plan for what you would want if you were unable to say it yourself. Advance Care Planning helps to ensure that a person’s preferences, beliefs, and values about health care are known and respected if they are too unwell to speak for themselves and benefits those who are close to them. Research has shown that families of people who have done advance care planning have less anxiety and stress when asked to make important healthcare decisions for other people.” (Advance Care Planning Australia 2018)
If you would like to make an appointment to discuss creating an Advance Care Plan, please contact us on manager@rosehaven.org.au or 03 5775 3161
