Hospice Volunteer

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Patients receiving hospice care enjoy the friendship of volunteers. Volunteers can read to patients, hold their hands, listen to music, sing, watch TV, play games, share stories, or offer caregiver respite. Your companionship ensures that patients have quality at their end of life.

Orientation is short and arranged to fit your schedule. We have flexible hours, will write letters of recommendation, be a referral, and are willing to do a Non-Paid Internship.

With our flexible schedule, you can work as many hours as you are able/willing to volunteer.

Working directly with patients and families, volunteers may:

• Visit patients, providing companionship
• Read books or news
• Sing to or play musical instruments for patients
• Celebrate holidays
• Help with light housekeeping
• Make phone calls or write letters
• Provide emotional/spiritual support
• Work on life-history projects and Memory Journal
• Sit with patients to relieve caregivers
• Help with bereavement

In the office, volunteers may:

• File and do light office work
• Answer calls and make calls to patients
• Help distribute information
• Assist with community relations activities