A Day of Caring at Hospice at Home

Jan. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- (Southwest, Michigan) January 13, 2010 - Hospice at Home volunteers offer warm hearts, listening ears, and compassion to our patients and their families. Our trained patient care volunteers serve patients and their families by offering respite, friendly visits, writing letters, running errands, providing transportation, and so much more. Other volunteers help with clerical tasks, special events, and other interesting projects. Volunteers choose how much time to give to Hospice at Home based on their ability.

To introduce our community to hospice volunteering, Hospice at Home will host a “A Day of Caring” on Saturday, February 27th from 8:30am-Noon in the community room of the Saint Joseph office, 4025 Health Park Lane.  This event will help celebrate Disney’s “Give a Day. Get a Disney Day” program where people can celebrate the spirit of giving by volunteering and in return receive a free ticket to a Disney park. To register for this event and the Disney program, people must go to www.disneyparks.com and complete the three-step process.  

“Many of our volunteers choose to serve their community providing care and respite for our patients and families, other help with errand and office assistance,” states Rachel Arent, Volunteer Recruiter and Trainer, Hospice at Home. “Our volunteers provide an empathetic ear and a friendly face for the patient and their families. There are just so many ways to get involved,” continues Arent.

Volunteers help in a variety of unique ways. They contribute to patient well-being through pet therapy, art, music, remembrance-life review, providing flowers, baking meals, and more.

Hospice at Home is the non-profit community hospice focusing on the patient and family regardless of the patients' diagnosis, treatment choices, or ability to pay. It provides quality care to those adjusting to living with a serious illness, facing death, anticipating the death of a loved one, or healing their grief after the death of a loved one. Hospice at Home places an emphasis on the emotional, social, and spiritual needs of those who need care and those receiving support services. Serving Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties, the care is coordinated by a team of physicians, nurses, hospice aides, social workers, spiritual care counselors, bereavement coordinators, and trained volunteers. Extending this care, Lory’s Place, a bereavement and education center that builds hope and strength for every grieving family, is available to anyone in Southwest Michigan or Northern Indiana.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or for more information, please call Rachel Arent at Hospice at Home, (269) 429-7100 or toll free at (800) 717-3811; or go to www.hospiceathomecares.org.

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Hospice at Home is your non-profit hospice provider for SW Michigan. Offering comfort, dignity, and compassion to the terminally ill through a holistic, non-curative, approach to care, focused on enhancing the lives of patients for their remaining days.