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Blue Mountains Palliative Support Service
A volunteer service providing
care and support for people living with a life limiting illness and for
their carers, families and friends.
Blue Mountains Palliative
Support Service (BMPSS) can provide volunteers to assist
you and your family.
Who are the Volunteers?
Our volunteers are special people who are carefully selected and trained.
They are interested in providing palliative support and are very important members of palliative care services.
Our Volunteers undergo
extensive
training in this specialist field. Their personal qualities include
knowledge and understanding
of palliative care issues, sensitivity and empathy, and their
willingness to be there for people living with a life-limiting illness,
their family and friends.
Volunteers continue this commitment by also offering support in bereavement.
How
we can help you
The aim of Palliative Care is to enable a person to live in dignity, peace and comfort throughout the duration of their life-limiting illness.
As part of the Sydney West Area Health Services Palliative Care team, we provide support either in the home or in hospital.
Blue Mountains Palliative Support Service seeks to support each individual according to their particular needs.
- Our service can provide
support to
you and to your carers, family and friends, with ;
- Companionship listening, talking, reading aloud.
- Respite care-to enable the carer to have some "time out".
- Help with writing letters, payment of bills, library, etc.
- Simple tasks, e.g.
making a cup of tea.
- Information and access to
resources, e.g. articles, books, relaxation
tapes and videos.Short outings, local appointments
Where to begin
Referral to the Blue Mountains Palliative Support Service (BMPSS) can be made through:
- General Practitioners
- Community Nurses
- Community Services
We also welcome self -referrals or referrals from carers, family and friends.
A volunteer service begun in Memory of Claude Papesch and funded by the Sydney West Area Health Service.
Our office is located at:
9 New Street Lawson N.S.W. 2783
Postal Address is:
Blue Mountains Palliative Support Service P.O. Box 117, Lawson N.S.W. 2783
Our Office Hours are:
9am- 4.0pm Monday to Friday.
Phone 0247 593001 Fax 0247 593344Email therese@mmnc.org.au
Co-ordinator Therese Wacher