Learn About Hospice
Hospice care focuses on comfort, dignity, and support at end of life. Learn how these services can help you and your family when you need it.
Vision & Community Purpose
Aboyne Rural Hospice will bring palliative care closer to home in rural Wellington County: a ten bed hospice to provide care at end-of-life for you and your family, friends and caregivers. In 2025, the Ministry of Health approved the new hospice and the County of Wellington generously donated a building site in Fergus. Join the campaign to help raise the necessary funds to start the construction of the new hospice!
Support the hospice
Your support helps bring hospice care closer to home. Every gift to Aboyne Rural Hospice contributes to building a comfortable, purpose-designed space for palliative care.
Volunteer
Volunteers play a vital role in hospice care. Share your time and compassion to raise funds and awareness for the new hospice, or support residents and their families when the hospice opens.
Back the Build: Build together!
Your donation helps to build and operate the proposed hospice facility with ten family suites, shared living spaces, kitchen and quiet rooms for reflection. The basement level includes storage, utilities, more office space and a large multi-purpose room for board meetings and volunteer training.
Note: rendering is for illustrative purposes only. Final design, materials, and appearance may vary from what is shown.
Care Aboyne Rural Hospice Provides
Hospice Philosophy: Compassionate End-of-Life Care
Hospice care is centred on comfort, dignity, and quality of life for people living with serious illness as they approach the end of life. We offer around-the-clock care that honours the whole person: their physical needs, emotions, social connections and spiritual life.
Resident and Family Support
A hospice environment is intentionally calm, welcoming, and supportive—offering a space where caregivers, family, and friends can gather, reflect, grieve, and cherish meaningful moments together. Hospice offers a compassionate alternative when a stay at home is no longer a realistic possibility.
Why Our Community Needs a Hospice
Right now, nearly half of the people in our region who need palliative care spend their final days in a hospital bed.
Local families must travel considerable distances to receive hospice care in the south end of Guelph or Waterloo. Distance is a real hardship — especially in winter, and for families without a car or the ability to drive. The Aboyne Rural Hospice will provide the necessary beds close to home and the site will enable integrated care with local hospitals, elder care facilities and community support close to home.
Latest News and Events
Ride to Remember and Renew
The Aboyne Rural Hospice and Elora Cataract Trailway Association are excited to host a new Cycle Ride Event on Saturday, September 19, 2026. Sign up to ride, spread the word to cyclists who may wish to join, donate in support of a cyclist who is fundraising on behalf of the event or volunteer with us! […]
LIONS for ABOYNE: Garage sale in Ennotville
Check out the Bake and Garage Sale at Ennotville Library, 7722 6th Line, Centre Wellington on Saturday, August 29, 8 am-2pm. Delicious home baking and a wide range of treasures waiting for a new home! Proceeds for the Aboyne Rural Hospice. If you have items to donate, call 519.577.2914 (no clothing or furniture). Great hearts, big […]
Belwood Lions Club Monthly Bottle Drive
The Belwood Lions are holding a monthly bottle & can drive every second Saturday of the month with proceeds to the Aboyne Rural Hospice. Bottles and cans that are refundable can be brought outside the Belwood Community Hall for drop off between 10am and 12pm. The Belwood Lions already raised and donated $10,000 for Aboyne! […]
Palliative care is about dignity, compassion, and ensuring people can remain close to home and surrounded by those they love. That matters deeply in rural communities like ours. Our government remains committed to supporting care that is local, accessible, and built around the needs of patients and families.
Bringing a hospice into our options for local palliative care is going to be a wonderful addition to our community. I think of hospice as a dedicated home away from home for a loved one's final weeks, where we can take care of all the daily worries and care for families as well as the resident.
County Council is pleased to support the new rural residential hospice facility at Wellington Place. This new facility will provide essential end of life care in a comfortable home-like space. During palliative care, it is so important that residents have the opportunity to be close to their loved ones.
Location
The County of Wellington has donated a two-acre site within the Wellington Place campus, located in Aboyne (between Fergus and Elora on Wellington Road 18). Aboyne Rural Hospice will be integrated into the existing local health care framework, with ease of access and overlapping care providers from Wellington County’s three hospitals, family health teams and elder care facilities.
Care, Comfort, Quality of Life
