At Continuum Care Hospice, we provide terminally ill patients and their loved ones with the support and care they require to live their lives comfortably. Our skilled hospice team is dedicated to helping our patients and their families maintain their dignity and quality of life. Our goal is to provide physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort for the patient and to provide tools, information and support for the patient’s family so that they feel confident in the crucial decisions that come along with terminal illnesses. We provide ongoing care and support for our patients and their families for as long as it is needed.
About Us
OUR MISSION
OUR
COMMITMENT
We promise to continuously provide you with the best service, the friendliest staff, and the most innovative care possible.
At Continuum Care Hospice, we are committed to providing our patients with quality care and support. We recognize the need to maintain and enhance the dignity and respect given to each and every individual in our care. Our compassionate, caring outlook manifests itself in the various areas of hospice and palliative care. Our staff works wholeheartedly to do everything possible to enhance the life of your loved ones.
OUR CARE TEAM
Hospice Music Therapy
Music therapy is the clinical use of music by a board-certified music therapist (MT-BC) to meet individuals’ physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. In practice, music therapy in hospice has been shown to accomplish a number of goals, including the following:
Pain management
Anxiety reductionImproving comfort
Expression of emotions (verbally and non-verbally
Increasing feelings of meaning/purpose
Resolving family conflict/relational stress
Processing grief-related feelings and experiences
Increasing self-esteem/self-acceptance
Increasing range of coping mechanisms
Enhancing quality of life
Gaining a sense of spiritual support
Fostering meaningful sensory engagement
Creating positive memories at the end of life
Hospice and Bereavement Equine Facilitated Care
Equine-Facilitated Therapeutic Care, is a non riding, empirical, scholarship based program, facilitated by a certified EquineFacilitated Psychotherapist /Learning Specialist (EFTL Practitioner). It provides an embodied approach to spiritual and emotional well being.
Because of the nature of the horse to live in the moment, the horse provides instant feedback to a client’s nonverbal and verbal communication. It feel like magic but it is all based on neuroscience.
Outcomes Might Include:
Safe Space to Explore Meaning at End-of-Life
Mind, Body, Spirit Connection!
Muti Sensory Awareness and Mindfulness
Assistance with Grief and Loss
Increase in Well- Regulated Feelings
Healing Connections in Relationship
Increase in Spiritual Joy and Awe
Increase in Self-Confidence and Well Being
Virtual Reality Experiences
Continuum Care has partnered with Rendever® to offer an immersive experience to help relive, reconnect and re-inspire those near the end of life’s journey.
Virtual Reality (VR) allows individuals and caregivers the opportunity to create new memories, complete bucket list dreams and revisit beloved places through a 360-degree virtual world.
Possible Outcomes May Include:
Increased sensory stimulation
Memory recall
Adventure through virtual travel
Laughter and tears
Increased socialization
Distraction from disease and/or daily stressors
Reminiscence therapy and story-telling
Relaxation and comfort
EXTENDED SERVICES
Extended Services will also be provided when identified by the Care Service Team as needed.
Dietetics Physical Therapy Respiratory TherapyMusic Therapy
Occupational Therapy Speech Language Pathology Pharmacy Equine Therapy Virtual Reality