Hospice Volunteers Needed in Auburn MA & Surrounding Area
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Hospice Volunteers make a difference!Overlook Hospice is looking for kind, compassionate individuals to share their time with hospice patients. The requirements are few but vitally important. An open heart and a bit of time is all that is needed. Sounds simple but it is exactly what is needed for you to make a difference in a patients life.Hospice volunteers provide compaionship and support to our hospice patients and their families. Companionship is provided by sitting with the patient and talking about life reviews, playing music for them, sitting outside with them on nice days, reading to them or just being a presence with them. As simple as that!Currently we are look for volunteers to visit patients in their own homes and long-term care facilities located in Auburn MA and surrounding areas. Companionship volunteers do no perform any clinical activities with a patient such as feeding, toileting, bathing or transferring.Volunteers schedule their own visits - day/time that works with the patient(s) schedule.Full training and ongoing support is provided.If you would like more information, please contact Debbie Towne at 508-434-2324 or email at dtowne@overlook-mass.orgPlease include you phone number in all responses. Thank You!
About Overlook Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice Services
Hospice care is considered to be the model for quality and compassionate care for people facing a terminal illness. At the center of hospice care is the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free, with dignity and the comfort of knowing our families will receive the necessary support to allow us to do so.Overlook Hospice Services provides a program of care to meet the needs of individuals, and their caregivers, nearing the end of life’s journey. Skilled professionals and dedicated volunteers help support both the patient and their families. Hospice Services helps relieve the physical, emotional, and social pain, which enables the seriously ill person to life at home with family, comfort and dignity. The support provides help to cope with the circumstances associated with a terminal illnessHospice care is a philosophy of care that accepts dying as a natural part of life. When death is inevitable, hospice seeks neither to hasten nor postpone it.
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