Best Things About Volunteering at Hospice

February 5, 2010

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50 ways to volunteer at Hospice

January 27, 2010

If you’ve ever wondered about the range of activities our volunteers are involved in, here are 50 ways they help. If you are interested in volunteering take a look to see what you can do and complete our application form.

Leave a comment if you can think of any other ways volunteers can help!

Make a sandwich

File

Phone calls

Mailings

Write a letter for a patient

Watch a movie with a patient

Go for a walk

Take a “wheelchair walk”

Ironing

Can peaches or other things

Read to a patient

Deliver medications

Simple errands

Shovel snow

Weed a garden

Deliver flowers

Have Tea

Cook a meal

Be a patients sous chief (be their hands, so they can cook again)

Give a caregiver a break

Play bingo

Go for a drive

Mow a lawn

Rake leaves

Walk a dog

Feed a cat

Be an escort to the dining hall

Water plants

Facilitate a support group

Make a bed

Go for ice cream

Bake cookies

Talk hunting

Watch a football game

The Cooking Channel

Vacuum

Put together a Memories Book

Label photographs

Life Review

Facilitate oral or written family   history

Dust

Polish Nails

Assist in walking

Be a companion

Share a cold drink or a warm one

Change the linens

Drive a patient to appointments

Support caregivers

Offer emotional support

Converse in Spanish

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Welcome

January 27, 2010

Welcome to our new Volunteer Blog! For those of you new to blogging (myself included), Blog is short for “Web log”, a site that allows us to share a running log of events, updates, news, encouragement and inspiration.

We plan to update the Blog once a week. We will share volunteer stories, have a question of the week, post our monthly newsletter etc.  This Blog will be a place where current and prospective volunteers can be updated on the hospice and transition programs.

I appreciate your giving the volunteer blog a try.

Dottie Hildebrand

Hospice Volunteer and Transitions Program Coordinator

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Hello world!

February 23, 2009

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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