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132 people are interested
Queens Patient Care Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Caring Hospice Services of New York
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132 people are interested
Looking for warm compassionate persons to provide companionship and emotonal support to terminally ill patients. Patient care volunteers visit patients in Nursing homes, assisted living or in patient's own homes. All Volunteers will be provided training, supervision and support.
Hospice volunteers:
- Visit patients in their homes and in facilities offering companionship and a chance to reminisce
- Read books, newspapers and other favorites to people when they aren’t able themselves
- Contribute to volunteer newsletter keeping volunteers and staff in tune with the Hospice Volunteer Program’s activities
- Assist with small errands for the patient and family to supplement the care received at home
- Share their talents and gifts... Play Music, create photo albums
- Provide patient the opportunity to tell his/her life story through the use of video, (if patient or caregiver has one available), audio and/or the written word.
- Office Volunteers assist office staff with basic tasks such as copying and filing, helping with web research, spreadsheets and more.
More opportunities with Caring Hospice Services of New York
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Caring Hospice Services of New York
Location:
3039 Ave. U, Brooklyn, NY 11229, US
Mission Statement
Caring Hospice is a unique and holistic service designed to meet the emotional, social, spiritual, and physical needs of our patients and their families as they face terminal illness. Our mission is to coordinate patient and family services while respecting their choices, values and beliefs. Hospice affirms life. Hospice exists to provide support and comfort to dying patients and their families. Hospice supports patients so that they might live as comfortably and as fully as possible. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. We exists in the hope and belief that with care, patients and their families are free to attain a satisfactory degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death.
Description
Hospice is a way of providing care for a person who is terminally ill, it is a program that focuses on the quality of life.Hospice believes in the right of people to know accurately and honestly what is happening to them so they can choose how they want to spend the remaining amount of time in the most purposeful and meaningful way.Hospice is for people who have terminal illness and is a way to deal realistically with a fatal disease. It offers the hope of dignity and comfort. and is family oriented program that helps families and/or friends to care for their loved one in the home.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
11909 26th Ave,Flushing, NY, NY 11354
DATE POSTED
August 31, 2017
SKILLS
- Photography
- Music Therapy
- People Skills
- Quilting
- Animal Therapy
- Music Arts
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 21
- Orientation or Training
- Flexible
- 2 step ppd