continuum
support
centred
Our social workers/nurses reach out to provide personalised, family-based, community support for patients and their caregivers along different stages of the cancer continuum. Services include telephone counselling, home visits, hospital outreach support, integrative body-mind-spirit programmes, purchase of community services (i.e. Chinese medicine, counselling, dietary, physiotherapy, home help, escort service, etc.) Same social worker/nurse will follow up the family for 4-9 months depending on their situation. All services are free of charge.
Refer NowOur Holistic Support include
- Personalised care and nutrition tips
- Integrative body-mind-spirit programmes
- Talks
- Online latest cancer related information
- Survivors/Caregivers sharing
- Phone counseling and outreach visit
- Volunteer comfort call
- Consultation from clinical psychologist
- Local support group meetings
- Family outdoor activities
- Outreach support to Out-patient Department / Connect with community
- Professional consolation (Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dietitian, Physiotherapy, etc.)
- Refer to community resources / Charity programmes
- Rehabilitation and Nutrition products
- Refer to escort service, home help, transportation assistance, etc.
Research Report
The “Walking Hand-in-Hand” project was developed and guided by the core operating values of patient empowerment, personalized care, emphasis on holistic well-being and family orientation, among others. Objectives were fourfold:
- Improve quality of life of service users and reduce suffering;
- Ensure continuity of care amid movement between hospitals and the community;
- Provide readily accessible information and community resources at all stages of illness;
- Provide cross-discipline care to meet holistic needs of service users.