Living with Illness
Your family, friends and neighbors are often looking for ways to help and support you during difficult times. We would suggest that before you go looking to people you don’t know look and ask the people you do know if they would be able to help your family with some of the practical needs or if they know of someone who might be available to provide support.
Here you will find some resources and videos to help give you information and insight to help you or a loved one understand and live with illness.
Wellspring
Wellspring is a Canada-wide network of community-based centres, each offering programs and services, without referral, to anyone, with any type of cancer, at any stage in their journey. Locations near Heart House Hospice are in Brampton and Oakville
Money Matters
Wellspring - Do you have questions about money related to cancer? Schedule a meeting in person, over the phone or on line.
CaringBridge
In times of need, the greatest source of hope and healing is the love of family and friends. A way to communicate with the people you choose
Medic Alert
The wonderful thing about Lifeline is that it can give you that important break and reassure your loved one that help is always a press of a button away.
TRansportation
Cancer Society - If you can’t afford the cost of travel, or if you are not physically well enough to use public transportation, we can work with you to help find a solution. Our Wheels of Hope Transportation Service covers 2 programs: Volunteer Driver Provided Program and Family Provided Program.
Transportation
TransHelp - Provides specialized public transit for eligible residents in Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga. You may be eligible for TransHelp if you experience a barrier to using conventional public transit due to your physical, cognitive, visual, sensory or mental health disability.
Wellspring
Wellspring is a Canada-wide network of community-based centres, each offering programs and services, without referral, to anyone, with any type of cancer, at any stage in their journey. Locations near Heart House Hospice are in Brampton and Oakville
Medic Alert
The wonderful thing about Lifeline is that it can give you that important break and reassure your loved one that help is always a press of a button away.
Money Matters
Wellspring - Do you have questions about money related to cancer? Schedule a meeting in person, over the phone or on line.
CaringBridge
In times of need, the greatest source of hope and healing is the love of family and friends. A way to communicate with the people you choose
TRansportation
Cancer Society - If you can’t afford the cost of travel, or if you are not physically well enough to use public transportation, we can work with you to help find a solution. Our Wheels of Hope Transportation Service covers 2 programs: Volunteer Driver Provided Program and Family Provided Program.
Transportation
TransHelp - Provides specialized public transit for eligible residents in Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga. You may be eligible for TransHelp if you experience a barrier to using conventional public transit due to your physical, cognitive, visual, sensory or mental health disability.
Practical In-Home Service
We would suggest that before you go looking to people you don’t know look and ask the people you do know if they would be able to help your family with some of the practical needs or if they know of someone who might be available to provide support. All of the below suggested services are fee for service programs.
Cleaning the House
In Home Hairdressing
You can also download a PDF of the most used services HERE.
Youth Share their Experience with Grief
Heart House Hospice has just completed three videos that were developed by our kids talking about their experience with parent illness and death.
A BIG heart felt thank you to Maddy, Isaac, Aryan, Helena, Ansh, Nora and Natalie (and their families) for sharing their homes, hearts and wisdom to help other children and families.
The messages from the children is intended to help normalize and support children, youth and families living with, and through, similar experiences.
We would like to encourage you to use as a resource in your work with children, youth and families sharing lived experience. We would also appreciate if you share these resources with your families, colleagues or through your organizations websites.
