Volunteering
Hospice Volunteers
Hospice is medical care designed to maximize comfort and quality of life for patients facing terminal illnesses.
Volunteers play an extremely important role in the hospice programs. These valued individuals provide assistance at all levels of skill, and many relatives and friends of former hospice patients, who having seen how much hospice can help, want to dedicate their volunteer efforts.
Here is list of areas hospice volunteers can assist with:
- Able to assist with daily care
- Prepare/serve meals or snacks
- Offer companionship
- Provide transportation
- Homemaking chores
- Pick up mail
- Visit client in hospital (if admitted and desired)
- Errands for family
- Reading to clients
- Observance of special days for clients and their families
- Assist bereavement coordinator with follow-up on families
- To be caring source of social support
How to become a Hospice Volunteer
For more information on becoming a volunteer please contact Pam Fitzgerald, Hospice Volunteer Coordinator at (605) 696-7700.
