Volunteers

As a hospice volunteer you will be given choices as to how much and what types of things you want to do. Some examples of typical volunteer duties are:

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• Listening to a patient’s concerns

• Being a comforting and supportive presence

• Engaging in the patient’s hobbies, for example, playing a board game or discussing current events

• Reading or writing down memories for the patient or helping with correspondence

• Telling other hospice staff the needs of the hospice patient and family/inner circle

• Running errands or doing light housekeeping for those receiving hospice care at home

• Encouraging the patient to tell their life story

• Transporting a patient to physician visits or shopping

• Providing assistance with personal care such as bathing or transferring from a chair to bed, if the volunteer has been properly trained to do so

• Providing time for the caregiver to take care of her/him self