Giving Tuesday 2024 - Home for the Holidays

A fundraiser for Delaware Hospice

$1,200 raised from 18 donors

As the holiday season approaches, many of us turn our hearts toward cherished traditions and time spent with family, friends, and loved ones. This season also reminds us of the profound comfort and joy of being home—a place where we feel safe and surrounded by warmth, love, and belonging. For those facing serious, life-limiting illness, being home takes on an even more profound significance. At Delaware Hospice, we understand that when life becomes uncertain, home is where people want to be—with those who know them best, in a space filled with comfort and familiarity.

But the journey of caring for a loved one with a life-limiting illness can be overwhelming. That’s where Delaware Hospice’s homecare team comes in. Whether providing expert pain and symptom management, emotional support, or practical guidance, our mission is to help patients and families focus on what truly matters: their time together.

This holiday season, we humbly ask for your support. A donation of any size to Delaware Hospice is vital to furthering our mission. Your contribution is more than a donation—it is a gift of hope, comfort, and dignity for families navigating some of life’s most challenging moments. A donation this season helps us provide exceptional support to patients and their loved ones when it’s needed most.
 
Thank you for your continued kindness and support. As you gather with loved ones this holiday season, may your home be filled with warmth, joy, and the knowledge that your generosity brings light to others.

About Delaware Hospice

Mission: Delaware Hospice supports every individual, family, and community with compassionate, expert care for serious illness. We provide advanced illness management through our programs and services: Delaware Hospice, Delaware Palliative, Delaware Hospice Center, Katybug Pediatric Program, Bereavement, and New Hope.

We are more than just Hospice.
Delaware Hospice offers many different programs designed to meet you and your family at any stage of serious illness.

Delaware Hospice helps patients and families focus on their time together and get back to what’s important. In addition to attending to your family’s practical and physical needs, our trained specialists help you navigate any emotional and spiritual concerns that may arise in the face of a life-limiting illness. 

Delaware Palliative offers relief to seriously ill patients who are receiving active, curative treatment. Assistance is provided to identify goals of care and manage symptoms while dealing with the physical and psychosocial burdens of a serious illness.

The Delaware Hospice Center in Milford is the first of its kind in Delaware, providing comprehensive, specialized, 24/7 care to patients in need of critical, short-term symptom management.

Delaware Hospice at Saint Francis, on the 6th floor of Saint Francis Hospital, is our newest inpatient center, providing comprehensive, specialized, 24/7 care to patients in need of critical, short-term symptom management.

Katybug our pediatric program, helps children facing a serious illness live well while improving their quality of life and helping their families cope with the challenges and feelings that are a natural part of their journey. 

Grief Support is offered to all family members before and after a loved one passes and continues for thirteen months after loss through a variety of workshops and support groups. 

New Hope, our children and teen bereavement program, targets children struggling with an expected or unexpected loss. Camp New Hope allows campers to meet others going through similar experiences and interact in traditional and bereavement activities.

It's never too early to call. Let us help you so you can focus on what matters.