Hamersley House will work within the local community, particularly with schools and their students, raising awareness of the essentials of the human condition, our spirituality and the understanding of the process of dying.
The Centre will show how an integrated approach to healthcare can improve the quality of life of the individuals receiving end of life care, as well as benefiting their relatives, partners and carers.
In addition to providing high quality end of life care, Hamersley House will...
offer its facilities to those needing respite and day care, irrespective of where they live or their diagnosis.
welcome local people of all ages to join residents for meals, attend outings or join in organised recreational activities within the Centre, free of charge.
provide employment to local people and offer placements to volunteers and to those who are unemployed and who wish to contribute.
establish and maintain a woodland area for the enjoyment of the wider community as well as the residents.
support local hotels, B&Bs, pubs and restaurants whose facilities will be required by the residents’ relatives and visitors.
provide a focus and forum for community events and make available the Centre's board room/conference room facilities for use by other charitable organisations.
involve members of the community, including those with learning and other disabilities, in gardening and horticultural activities, e.g. vegetable and fruit growing, in order to enhance their life skills.
participate in the community and local schools by means of dialogue, giving public talks and seminars on end of life care, complementary and integrated healthcare and other related issues.
prior to completion, provide a free advisory service on end of life care within the community from Hamersley House's nursing and healthcare team.
Do you think a leaf that falls to the ground is afraid of death?
Do you think a bird lives in fear of dying?
It meets death when death comes,
but it is not concerned about death; it is much too occupied with living,
with catching insects, building a nest, singing a song,
flying for the very joy of flying.
Have you ever watched birds soaring high up in the air
without a beat of their wings, being carried along by the wind?
How endlessly they seem to enjoy themselves!
They are not concerned about death.
If death comes, it is all right, they are finished.
There is no concern about what is going to happen;
they are living from moment to moment, are they not?
It is we human beings who are always concerned about death
- because we are not living.
That is the trouble: we are dying, we are not living.
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