Hospice Care Psychosocial Counselling Service for Carers Services of Caritas Vienna presented by...

Hospice Care

Psychosocial Counselling Service for Carers

Services of Caritas Vienna

presented by

Thomas-Peter Siegl

Mobile Dienste, Thomas-Peter Siegl

Hospice Care

We provide Hopice services in...

Mobile Hospice Vienna: Mobile Palliative-Care-Teams Mobile Hospice-Teams

Day Care Hospice Vienna

Mobile Hospice Lower Austria: Mobile Hospice-Teams in 10 regions Mobile Palliative-Care-Teams in 2 regions


Mobile Hospice Vienna

Founded in 1989

Multi-professional Mobile Palliative-Care-

Team Mobile Hospice-Team

no cost for patients and their families

Facts & Figures 5930 Supported patients Average age in years: 72 Averages days of support: 73 47790 Volunteer hours Primary disease cancer: 82%


Day-Care Hospice Vienna

Founded in 2001, open every Thursday from 9:00 – 16:00

To meet other patients

To discuss diagnostic findings with professionals

To receive physiotherapy, bathing, music-therapy, etc.

From a multi-professional team (doctors, nurses, social workers, pastors, volunteers)

no cost for patients and their families


Mobile Hospice Lower Austria

Founded in 1998

10 Mobile Hospice-Teams part-time coordinators and more than 130 specially trained volunteers

2 Mobile Palliative-Care-Teams 5 doctors,10 nurses in 2 regions

no costs for patients and their families

Facts & Figures 1008 Supported patients Average age in years: 68

Average days of support:108

Volunteers hours:12.184

Source of funds:

app. 75% by public authorities

app. 25% donations


We aim to achieve with our work …

Quality of life for people with end-stage diseases

Pain & symptoms treatment / relief / control

To endure the dignity and self respect of each individual

Interdisciplinary team approach (physicians, nurses, social workers, pastor, priest, volunteers) for medical, social, psychological and spiritual pain

End-of-life-care at home, in people‘s familiar environment

„As much ambulant as possible, as much stationary

As necessary.“


We offer to patients and relatives …

Consultation in palliative care Palliative care actions in emergencies 24-hours-availability of our palliative physicians; daily availability of

our palliative nurses TIME – for conversation, visits and activities... Management assistance between stationary and ambulant

services Building up and arranging a care-taking-network bereavement counselling, mourning work support Public relations, seminars, workshops, lectures,...



Individual and competent counselling supportoffered inside the Caritas or, if required, by home visits in Vienna by two part-time counsellors

"Carers Telephone"

Grief Counselling

Dementia Carer Support Group called „The long Goodbye”


is addressed to the primary caregivers of diseased persons with a serious chronic illness

most of the carers (between 50 to 60 %) take care for someone with dementia

Dementia carers often experience high levels of psychological stress, may be at increased risk for psychiatric and physical morbidity and have increased mortality rates

The aim was to set up a counselling service for carers who feel out of touch may not be able to get to support groups can’t get out of the house very often




Psychosocial approaches need to be individualized and tailored to the person’s needs, personality, biography, goals,

strengths and preferences.

to enhance the persons’s sende of self and quality of life

most of the carers are spouses and daughters – very often highly distressed.


What are the benefits?

Knowledge transfer, getting informations

Getting emotional support by experiencing emotions

Being with people who understand the pressures of caring

To strengthen resources and skills

To prevent carers health and to prevent from isolation, from violence

Carer support groups respect confidentiality

Dementia Carer Support Group“The Long Goodbye”

Thank you for your attention!

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