Compassionate Neighbours is an award winning, St Joseph’s Hospice project, which provides community-led support for anyone who is living with a long term or terminal illness, is elderly or frail, socially isolated or nearing the end of life through age or illness.
The success of the Compassionate Neighbours project in East London has led to other hospices adopting the same model. The role of hospices is to support and enable people to become Compassionate Neighbours in their community. The hospice helps people to harness their skills and experience to provide social and emotional support to people in their community, helping them live life to the full for as long as they can.
Hospices receive referrals for people in the community who would like a Compassionate Neighbour who are then matched with someone who shares similar interests.
More information about the Compassionate Neighbours approach is available here: Compassionate Neighbours website
The project also offers a package of support and guidance to those wishing to join the Compassionate Neighbours network and bring Compassionate Neighbours to their own area: Joining the Compassionate Neighbours network.
