Delmeza Hospice care for Children

Demelza is an organisation providing hospice care for over 450 children with life-limiting illnesses and their families across Kent, East Sussex and South London through:

Residential Hospice Care

A care team at the eight bedded hospice in Kent, provides respite, symptom control, end-of-life care and bereavement support. Over 300 life-limited children and their families benefit from a wide range of facilities including a multi-sensory room, Soft Play, Jacuzzi, and The Inclusion Zone for young adults. Available therapies include music, physiotherapy and aromatherapy. The care team, led by specialist children’s palliative care nurses, make the most of every moment that the child spends at the hospice. Parents have described having the opportunity of an undisturbed night’s sleep as pure luxury. At the end of the child’s illness, we offer a comprehensive service of support using a bereavement suite – known as the Hop Garden – which enables a family to let go and say goodbye at their own pace.

Community Care
The Demelza community team provides a care service for over 150 children in East Sussex, South West Kent and South London with life-threatening and life-limiting illness and their families. The service complements the care offered at Demelza House with the community team’s specialist paediatric nurses going directly into the family home to provide care, crisis intervention, an on-call service and respite. The service helps enable the family to live life, as a family, in their own environment and combined with short breaks and other services at the hospice offers flexibility in care provision. When a child reaches the end of its life the Demelza community team can offer the choice of 24 hour end of life care at home.

Capital Appeal
We are currently running a capital appeal to build and run a new hospice in South East London which is planned to open in early 2009. Once opened the new hospice will provide short breaks, symptom control, end of life care and bereavement services to over 200 children and families in this area.

Registered Charity No. 1039651

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