Complementary Therapy

Casey House employs complementary therapies as an adjunct to medication regimes and helps clients deal with issues like pain and symptom management and depression. The inclusion of these therapies offers clients their treatment of choice and enables them to augment their treatment with more than just drug therapies. The use of complementary therapies also speaks to the hospice philosophy embraced at Casey House and the holistic approach of addressing the needs of the body, mind and spirit. Most important of all, complementary therapy allows for the provision of comfort to clients in all phases of their care and contributes to enhancing their quality if life. Casey House has a registered massage therapist on staff who provides massage to our residential and community clients.

Other therapies used at Casey House include:

• Acupuncture
• Aquatic Massage Therapy
• Aromatherapy
• Art Therapy (group or individual)
• Chiropractic
• Homeopathy
• Massage (relaxation and treatment)
• Meditation (group or individual)
• Naturopathy
• Therapeutic Touch
• Yoga Breathing Exercises
• Other (as identified by the client)

These therapies are used in conjunction with medications for the management of symptoms, which include:

• Emotional Issues (anxiety, crisis support, depression, stress)
• Gastrointestinal (constipation, diarrhea)
• Musculoskeletal (joints, muscles, tendons/ligaments)
• Pain
• Skin Conditions
• Other (as identified by the client)