Companion Care & Respite Volunteer - Tarentum
ORGANIZATION: Caring Hospice Services of Western PA
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Volunteer needed to provide a hospice patient with companionship, while also providing respite to their caregiver.
Caring Hospice Services has a patient living in Tarentum with their spouse, who is their full-time primary caregiver. This caregiver needs someone to spend time with the patient, while they run errands or just take a break.
Preferred days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and/or Fridays.
You will not be expected to do any type of hands-on caregiving while with the patient.
There are many things you can do with the patient, including:
- Keep them company with your presence
- Conversation
- Listen to music
- Watch TV or movies
- Read books
- Play games
- Arts and crafts
- and more...
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About Caring Hospice Services of Western PA
Location:
118 Fox Plan Rd, Suite 1, Monroeville, PA 15146, US
Mission Statement
Caring Hospice Services is a unique, holistic and cost effective service designed to meet the social, emotional, spiritual and physical needs of our patients and families as they face terminal illness. Our mission is to coordinate patient and family services while respecting their choices, values, and beliefs. At Caring Hospice Services we are passionate about our mission to bring comfort and relief into the lives of those who need it most. Every single day, our caring and compassionate staff with brings high quality hospice care in the lives of hundreds of terminally ill patients and their families. They replace suffering with comfort, despondence with good cheer, and despair with hope.
Description
Caring Hospice Services provides quality and compassionate hospice care at the time when it's needed the most. At Caring Hospice Services, we strive to uphold our mission of providing unique, holistic and cost-effective hospice care exclusively designed to meet the social, emotional, spiritual, and physical needs of each of our patients and their families as they face terminal illness. Our commitment is to provide families with the support they need to allow a loved one to die peacefully without pain, with the dignity they deserve, and in familiar surroundings. We have the utmost respect for the choices, values, and beliefs of our patients and their families. Caring Hospice Services- because life is for living.
CAUSE AREAS
Health & Medicine,
Seniors,
Veterans & Military Families
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Tarentum, PA 15084
(40.60146 ,-79.75977 )
DATE POSTED
April 2, 2025
SKILLS
- Elder care
- Patient Care
- Hospice Care
- Veteran Care
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 3+ hours weekly
- Medical screening (physical & TB testing), background checks, and training - All will be provided by us, at no cost to you. Must have reliable transportation and provide proof of a driver’s license and auto insurance.