Amedisys Hospice

Description

Direct Activities Include:

• Running errands
• Providing companionship to patients and/or caregivers
• Shopping for patients/caregivers
• Reading to or writing letters for patients
• Attending funerals
• Collecting and arranging donated flowers(i.e. from flower shops, funeral homes)
• Craft projects with patients and/or delivery to patients
• Care calls/tuck-in calls
• Spiritual prayer calls
• Videoing reports and introductions of team/staff for family members who live far away
• Light gardening
• Delivering supplies or equipment to patients' homes or running other errands to relieve staff
• Entertaining patients
• Support to family members
• Support at the time of death
• Helping patients decorate/un-decorate at time of holidays
• Holiday baking with patients and their families
• Christmas caroling at patient’s home
• Creating holiday decorations

A hospice volunteer helps fill that gap by being a companion who understands the process of dying and provides compassion, comic relief and conversation; there will be no hands-on medical or patient care required or allowed.