Light Up A Life
Remember your loved ones at this community vigil filled with light, love, and sweetness. We’ll gather at WKFL park on Wednesday, December 11th at 5PM to fill the darkness with the light of 100 luminaries.
Dedicate a luminaria by calling Hospice (235-6899), stopping by our office, or ordering online.
(THIS EVENT WAS POSTPONED DUE TO THE RAIN ON DECEMBER 3RD.)
“Love is Listening” Film Screening and Discussion
Admission is free to this documentary film screening. Donations accepted.
All humans need connection, even those who have dementia. Love Is Listening examines how we can connect with people whith dementia including their friends and loved ones.
Memory Cafe
Memory Café offers an opportunity for people living with dementia and their care partners to engage in much needed socialization and enjoy the company of others who are on the same journey. At this Memory Café, time will be split between socializing and enjoying Music Bingo.
Theme: Music Bingo!
Art Links
Art Links, is an art program from Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska, promotes engagement for individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias or seniors at risk of isolation and depression.
Normal Aging vs. Something Different
A conversation on what normal aging looks like vs. the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s. There will be time for discussion and Q&A.
Virtual Dementia Tour
A Virtual Dementia Tour is a sensory experience that simulates the obstacles that dementia patients face every day, allowing tour participants to see and feel what a dementia patient might experience. The Virtual Dementia Tour is about 30 minutes long.
Anchor Point/Ninilchik EMS Training
Special thanks to Education Specialist Debbie Chulick for her willingness to connect with other groups in our service area during her time here in Homer.
Holidays & Dementia
A conversation on how to support our loved ones with Dementia during the holidays.
Homer Police Department Training with Alzheimer's Resource of Alaska
Special thanks to Education Specialist Debbie Chulick for her willingness to connect with other groups in our community during her time here in Homer.
Trivia Night - HHS National Honor Society
This year’s HHS National Honor Society Trivia Night will benefit NHS and Hospice of Homer. Join us for trivia, a dessert auction, refreshments, and fun! Bring a team of up to 6 people or find your team at the event. $10/person, $5/student.
Volunteer Orientation
Join us for Volunteer Orientation on October 8th and 9th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM via Zoom. For more information call 907-235-6899 or email care@hospiceofhomer.org
Volunteer Orientation
Volunteers are the heart of our community. If you would like more information or to sign up for volunteer orientation, please call us at 907-235-6899.
Volunteer Appreciation Cookout
We're celebrating YOU and all the amazing work you've done! Come enjoy a day filled with friends, fun, and great food. Let's gather together to relax, have fun, and savor some delicious food. Your hard work deserves a big thank you, and we can't wait to show our appreciation!
Volunteer Training
Become a Valued Member of Our Amazing Volunteer Team!
Join us for two evenings of training from the comfort of your home on June 18th and 19th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm via Zoom. Hospice of Homer is thrilled to welcome you to our team.
The Last Ecstatic Days
Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan envisions more – to teach the world how to die without fear. To do that, he needs to film his death.
Honoring Ethan's wish, his doctor Aditi Sethi transports him to an idyllic house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is a story rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace.
A sensory immersion into leaving the body, “The Last Ecstatic Days” reveals a man who will not let us forget him – even after he’s taken his final breath.
Hospice of Homer Free Film Series - Wisdom Gone Wild
A vibrant tender cine-poem, a filmmaker collaborates with her Nisei mother as they confront the painful curious reality of wisdom ‘gone wild’ in the shadows of dementia. Made over 16 years, the film blends humor and sadness in an encounter between mother and daughter that blooms into an affectionate portrait of love, care, and a relationship transformed.
Admission By Donation
Hospice of Homer Free Film Series -
The setting is the fictitious small Colorado city of Holt, where Louis Waters, a widower, and Addie Moore, a widow, have been neighbors for decades but hardly know each other. One night, Addie visits Louis to suggest they spend the night together, non-sexually, to counter their loneliness. Although Louis is initially somewhat hesitant, he soon agrees and they start spending their evenings and nights at Addie's house.
Hospice of Homer Free Film Series - Blackbird
James "Jimmy" Keene has turned to a life of crime, until he is arrested as part of a wider sting called Operation Snowplow. Once a promising young football star who was offered several college football scholarships; instead he decided to stay in the Chicago area to be close to his thriving business. He accepted a plea deal which he believed to be five years, released with parole after four years. However, in the conspiracy, he was enhanced with possession of a number of illegally held firearms and was sentenced to ten years without parole.
Film Series - The Theory of Everything
In the 1960s, Cambridge University student and future physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) falls in love with fellow collegian Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones). At 21, Hawking learns that he has motor neuron disease. Despite this -- and with Jane at his side -- he begins an ambitious study of time, of which he has very little left, according to his doctor. He and Jane defy terrible odds and break new ground in the fields of medicine and science, achieving more than either could hope to imagine.
Hospice of Homer Free Film Series - The Starling
A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.
Hospice of Homer Free Film Series -You’re Looking AT Me Like I live Here and I Don’t
A total immersion into the fragmented day-to-day experience of Alzheimer’s disease, You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t is the first documentary filmed exclusively in an Alzheimer’s care unit, told from the perspective of someone suffering from the disease.
Alzheimer's Resource of Alaska and Hospice of Homer Fall Weekend
Four Days of Dementia Events in Homer! Bringing education and resources to our community about this devastating disease.
Good Death Book Club Meeting
Join us for our September Good Death Book Club Meeting. The book selection is The Grace in Dying by Kathllen D. Singh.
Death Doula Training Informational Meeting
Receive intensive training as a Death Doula, explore your own end-of-life attitudes, receive grief training and a mentor for the learning journey.
Volunteer Appreciation BBQ
Please join us for food, drinks and live music as we celebrate our amazing volunteers.
Good death Book Club for August
Join us as we discuss the August Book Club selection, The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski.
Good Death Book Club Meeting
Join us for our July Book Club meeting as we discuss “The Book of Two Ways.”
Good Death Book Club meeting
Join our Good Death Book Club on Saturday, June 3rd at 11 AM to discuss "The Art of Dying Well." We look forward to seeing you there!
A Time for Tea & Remembering Our Mothers
Please join us for this special event to honor our mothers who are no longer here but remain with us in spirit.