Hospice Companionship Volunteers for East Valley

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At Agave Hospice, we strive to support our patients and their families every step of the way in their end-of-life journey. Part of that support comes by providing patients with friendship and companionship in their final months, weeks and days.

Many patients spend the majority of their day in one room, and it can be lonely for them as well as exhausting for their families turned caregivers. Our volunteers "adopt" patients to befriend and regularly visit them as their dignosis takes its course, and we help them end their journey on Earth with quality of life.

Volunteers can provide enrichment for our patients by spending time with them in conversation, reading them books, walking their dog or simply watching TV with them. They can sit with a patient while a caregiver takes a much needed rest, or runs errands, or help a patient write a life review. Volunteers fill the social and human connection need that is so often lacking when someone becomes isolated due to illness.

All our Volunteers go through general Volunteer Orientation and can then go out into the community where our patients reside, either in their private homes, nursing facilites or group homes. This is a non-clinical volunteer role. Volunteers are not responsible for physically caring for patients, but instead offer a gentle presence for a dying person.