Trillium Villa team focusing on enhancing palliative care services

A recent fundraiser brought in $342 to help provide items for palliative care cart
8/23/2019  - Deron Hamel
Pictured above, from left to right, Trillium Villa palliative care team members Tammy O'Rae and Cindy Slegers.  

The Trillium Villa palliative care committee hosted a June 24 spaghetti lunch that raised $342 to help provide more items for the palliative care cart the Sarnia long-term care community recently acquired.

Registered social service worker and palliative care team member Cindy Slegers says the committee has been working to revamp the palliative care program in recent months, and having a cart filled with sensory items, literature and other materials has been a major step forward in enhancing end-of-life care services.

“We’re wanting to make sure that we’re putting comfort supports in place all through that journey, so we are revamping the whole program,” Cindy tells S&R Today.

Trillium Villa also has a palliative care room where residents who are at the end-of-life stage can spend time with their families and where team members can provide residents and their families with comfort measures.

The palliative care cart is filled with some of the same items found in the palliative care room, so team members can provide comfort measures to residents wherever they choose to receive their care.

Having a mobile cart allows for seamless service to residents because team members do not have to go back and forth to retrieve items, Cindy says.

“It makes this a much smoother service for us to provide,” she says.

Thanks to money raised through the spaghetti lunch fundraiser, team members were able to enhance palliative care services almost immediately, Cindy adds.

“We had some items that were donated right off the hop, so we were able to put (the cart) into play right away and it has really been positive,” she says.

“We want to continue to revamp and add items, such as reading materials for the families, (and) we want to look into some sensory items as well.”

- More to come

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