Calling all College Students - Excellent Volunteer Experience on YOUR time!

Are you a student at a local college or university? Do you need service hours to graduate? This is the perfect opportunity for you! Work your volunteer hours around YOUR schedule!

Social work and Gerontology students-- this is a great place to complete your cohort and possibly even your internship!

Hospice is a special kind of caring. Hospice care is patient and family centered and seeks to provide support and comfort to those facing a life limiting illness. As a volunteer, you can play a large role in our efforts by sharing and developing skills and interests in a manner that enriches the quality of life for those you serve.

Medicare also recognizes the importance of volunteers in the delivery of hospice care. Medicare requires that hospices utilize volunteers from their local community to augment the care the hospice agency provides. Nationally, over 100,000 people serve as hospice volunteers and give millions of hours of their time to serve terminally ill patients and their families.

How you can help?

Hospice Volunteers help patients and families in a variety of ways including some of the following:

• Companionship, listening, reading to patients
• Spiritual support
• Errands, yard work, organization
• Creating memories (scrapbooks, audio/visual tapes, etc.)

Hospice Volunteers can also provide the agency with clerical support in a variety of ways including:

• Internet research projects
• Answering the phones
• Photocopying/and filing
• Assembling information packets
• Assisting with mailings
• Making support telephone calls to patients and families