Volunteer for Hospice at Home

Jan. 4, 2011 - PRLog -- 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.

Hospice at Home is offering a training program for people interested in volunteering. This training will take place on Saturday, February 5 from 9am – 2pm at the Lilly of the Valley Church, on M-140 in Covert. For those unable to attend the training alternate arrangements can be made.  Individuals interested in attending are asked to call and preregister with Hospice at Home Volunteer Coordinator, Beth Fones at 269-637-3825.

“Many of our volunteers choose to serve their community providing care and respite for our patients and families” states Fones. “Our volunteers provide an empathetic ear and a friendly face for the patient and their families,” continues Fones.

Volunteers also help in a variety of unique ways. They contribute to patient well-being through pet therapy, art, music, remembrance-life review, providing flowers, and more. Office work and fundraising are other ways that people can assist.

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 Beth Fones at Hospice at Home, (269) 637-3825 or toll free at (800) HOSPICE; 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.