Hospice West Auckland

Patient and family groups

Hospice West Auckland offers a range of services that can enhance your wellbeing and assist you to care for your loved one.

These are offered at no cost onsite at Hospice House, 52 Beach Road, with some services also provided in your home.

Consultations with social workers, counsellors, therapists and our spiritual advisor can be arranged by appointment.

For more information, please email admin@hwa.org.nz or call us on (09) 834 9755. We can offer volunteer drivers that can help with transport to Hospice.

For Patients

Kowhai Group
This is a social group for people living with a life-limiting condition. We meet for companionship, discussion and support. Different activities are offered from time to time.

Art Group
Come along and play with art materials on Mondays, 12.30 to 2.30pm. No prior art skills are necessary in this relaxed and supportive group.

Social Work
Our social work team can offer advice and guidance in negotiating the many decisions and challenges that come with supporting and caring for someone facing a life-limiting illness. This includes planning for the future and accessing services and support available in the community.

Life Review
Our volunteer life reviewers can spend time with you recording the important moments and memories of your life and writing them up in a document that you can share with friends and families. They can also support you with writing letters and cards to important people in your life.

Arts Therapy
Our registered arts therapist uses a number of creative expressions (such as visual arts, movement, storytelling, or writing) and offers a gentle space for exploration of a person’s feelings, thoughts, and memories associated with their life journey. Engaging with art materials can bring joy, increase the sense of wellbeing, and strengthen the connection to oneself and to others.

Counselling
Our specialist counsellors provide an opportunity to discuss any concerns or issues you are facing. Counselling sessions can support you in exploring how you want to live in the face of illness.

Integrative Therapies
We provide specialist massage service appropriate to your needs and your changing body. We also offer aroma-therapy and can create oils and creams specific to your needs.

Spiritual Care
Our spiritual advisor will listen to you and help you explore what brings you meaning and purpose in life. At HWA, we recognise spiritual care is fundamental to the human experience of health, illness and healing.

Music Therapy
Our registered music therapist uses music as a means of exploring thoughts, feelings, memories, and stories from your life. Music Therapy can be a way of supporting connections within families and helping children to negotiate loss.

Physiotherapy
Individual assessments and classes to help improve flexibility, strength, balance and relaxation.

Acupuncture
Offered on Tuesdays at 52 Beach Rd by a volunteer registered acupuncturist, sessions will provide relief of physical and emotional symptoms.

Virtual Reality
A chance to explore both familiar and unfamiliar worlds, to take a holiday from your chair. Tell us if you are interested in experiencing this technology.

Card Making
An opportunity to exercise your creativity and spend time with others, this activity is held on Tuesday afternoon at 52 Beach Road.

Volunteer Services
Our volunteers can provide companionship to patients in the home so that family carers can have some time for themselves. Volunteer drivers may also be available to bring patients to Hospice, depending on availability.

For Families and Carers

Wellness Group
Meeting once a week for four weeks, the Wellness Group is open to patients, carers, whānau and friends. The Wellness Group gives participants a chance to meet with Hospice staff and other Hospice patients and families in a friendly and informal setting. There is also a theme for each week, for example, understanding how Hospice works, how to manage pain and medication, and planning for the future.

Counselling
Our registered counsellor provides support to patients and their families and whānau. This is an opportunity to discuss any concerns or issues you are facing and how you each want to live in the face of illness and loss. Our counselling services continue to offer support to families and whānau
after bereavement.

Integrative Therapies
We provide massage and aromatherapy for patients and family members. We can also create some oils and creams specific to your needs.

Arts Therapy
Our registered arts therapist uses a number of creative expressions (such as visual arts, movement, storytelling, or writing) and offers a gentle space for exploration of a person’s or their whānau’s feelings, thoughts, and memories associated with their life journey. Engaging with art materials can also bring joy, increase your sense of wellbeing, and strengthen the connection to oneself and to others.

Grief Support

Grief and Loss Information
Held bi-monthly, this session is designed to answer questions about loss and the experience of grief and grieving.

Bereavement Support Group
A six-week group for individuals who are bereaved and coming to terms with the loss of someone significant in their lives.