Home Health Aids provide personal care and assistance with caregiving tasks; A Medical Social Worker provides emotional support and counseling to cope with the impact of a terminal illness; assessment of patient and family needs and liaison with community agencies; Therapists provide physical, occupational, speech and dietary as needed ; A Chaplain provides spiritual and emotional support and acts as a liaison with the religious community.

Volunteers provide companionship and caregiving for patients and family members. They can also offer a few hours respite care to enable family members the opportunity to go shopping or take a break, provide transportation for medical appointments, or give assistance with light homemaking tasks. They additionally make available vigil services, nearly around the clock as the end nears, to support both the patient and his or her family in their final hours.

Bereavement counseling is a source of individual and family support through home visits and telephone contacts, resource material on loss and grief, grief management support groups, memorial services, school-based grief groups and bereavement camps for children and families.