Marie Curie Cancer Care
Marie Curie Cancer Care has worked since 1948 to provide care for terminally ill patients. This is done through the excellent work and care provided by Marie curie nurses.
The Raisa Gorbachev Foundation has funded Marie Curie nursing care for young people. By providing care at home this allows young people to pass away in the place that they choose.
There are nine Marie Curie hospices in the UK and they provide the largest number of hospice beds outside of the NHS. Through funding raised at the Raisa Gorbachev Midsummer Galas, Marie Curie has been able to build, renovate and furnish family rooms at Marie Curie hospices. These include building a new family room at the Solihull Hospice.
These are just a few examples of the collaborations between Marie Curie and Raisa Gorbachev Foundation
Counselling and family rooms in the Marie Curie Glasgow, Hampstead and Solihull hospices have been funded by the Foundation. These warm, welcoming spaces are used by both hospice counsellors and by patients, their families and children.
Patient Rooms
Bereavement counsellors spend time here with young people being cared for at the hospice and with well children during the process of a loved one’s terminal illness. Families use them to spend quality time together – doing simple things like eating as a family and cuddling up on the sofa, enables them to keep life as normal as it can be during one of the most stressful times of their lives - this is enormously important to children.
Funding nursing care
Grants have gone to Marie Curie to be spent on nursing care at home and in hospices for 16-25 year olds. This ensures young people can spend their last days in the place of their choice. Home nursing care allows young patients to spend their last days at home surrounded by family and friends and Marie Curie hospices provide around the clock medical care in a relaxed, caring environment.
Bereavement Counselling
Few life events have greater impact on a child than the death of someone they love. Children can cope with their grief much more effectively if they are helped to understand what has happened to their loved one, why it has happened and what it means for the future. Marie Curie Children and Young Person Support Workers use a range of techniques to encourage open communication in the family and help children understand what they are feeling. This is crucial to help guide them through the traumatic but necessary process of grieving.
