Hospice at Home

Hospice at Home provides nursing care to support you and your family in your own home and is available whether you live alone or with others. The service, provided by experienced Dorothy House Health Care Assistants, is used in the later stages of life.

Hospice at Home may offer a couple of nights respite care to allow your usual carer to get a good night’s sleep or perhaps an afternoon to allow them to go out. Block respite care of up to a week can be offered in conjunction with established care arrangements as an alternative to being admitted to the In-Patient Unit for planned respite care.

An increased level of care can be offered in the last few days of life to help you to remain at home if you so wish.




Referral to Hospice at Home
Patients are referred to Hospice at Home by a Dorothy House nurse specialist or another health and social care professional such as District Nurses, GPs and Specialist Nurses.

All care is offered in conjunction with other services, is subject to availability of resources and is regularly reviewed.



Receiving support from Hospice at Home
A uniformed Dorothy House Health Care Assistant will arrive at your home fully briefed on your condition.

The Health Care Assistant will sit in the same room as you or if you prefer, will be in a room close by and will monitor your condition with a room monitor and through regular discrete visual checks. They will be trained in and will carry out any nursing and personal care needs they are competent to do, following the District Nursing Team care plans.