Patient Care Volunteers will be assigned to hospice patients in their own home or in facilities where the patient lives. Volunteers become important team members in delivering a holistic approach to hospice patients and their families.
After completing our comprehensive training program, Patient Care Volunteers will provide direct service as an integral part of the Hospice team. This could include:
- Assists patients with personal care activities including grooming and meal preparation
- Assists patients with household tasks including: planning and preparing meals, light housekeeping, laundering clothes, yardwork, snow removal, etc…
- Provides companionship/respite care; staying with patient while caregiver(s) rests or attends to other responsibilities
- Provides companionship/emotional support: listening, caring, and being present to the patient and caregiver(s)
- May run errands, or pick up medications, etc...
Volunteers are matched with patients with similar interests to provide companionship, respite and support for the patient and family. Volunteers are diverse, with their own set of skills (just like our patients). Whether you have been a homemaker, in the health profession, a CEO or have nursed a family member through a terminal illness your care and empathy is much appreciated.
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