Caring at home - practical tips

This information is sourced from Marie Curie and the Hospice in the Weald INFORMED guides and St Luke's Hospice Harrow

Everyone wants to be at home for as long as possible - but family carers need knowledge regarding the best way to care for the body, especially in these times of stretched community resources. Caring for someone at home with a terminal illness can be rewarding, exhausting, frightening and joyful.

Confidence in the everyday tasks of care will help you to cope. 

Helping with Practical Tasks:

 

The Hospice in the Weald INFORMED guides  cover most of the above topics plus a few extra

 A brief video showing how to safely move someone in their bed

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Marie Curie

Published 20th April 2020

Hospice in the Weald, Kent

Published 30th December 2022

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