How to Help, Volunteer Opportunities

Part of our Team

Choose to volunteer and you become part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. You’ll join a group of dedicated and caring individuals who offer supportive medical, social and volunteer services to patients and families who are facing the difficulties of a life limiting illness.

Concerned men and women of all ages can be Hospice volunteers. Our volunteers come from all walks of life and are united in a common desire to serve their communities. So if you’re willing to give your time and talents to help Hospice families in many ways, then we would love to have you as part of our family.

Trained for Service

We make sure that nobody gets in over their head. Our extensive training course gives volunteers are a basic orientation to Loving Care and to the volunteer program. Prospective volunteers also learn about the hospice concept of care, the services offered by Loving Care and the role of volunteers.

When training is completed, volunteers may select their area of involvement in the program. You can choose direct patient contact or one of many other supporting positions depending on your skill and comfort level.

Volunteering in the Home

Working with the patient and family is one of the most personal ways a volunteer can become involved. By providing supportive in-home care, you become a friend and confidant to the patient and family.

Volunteers serve as non-judgmental listeners and often form close and lasting relationships with patients and their family members. The duties of a patient/family volunteer include sitting with the patient, shopping, transporting the patient or a family member to appointments, reading to the patient, chatting about current events, doing laundry and light house-cleaning or delivering cookies or a fruit basket.

Office Volunteers

Loving Care relies on volunteers to staff the reception desk at the London office. Here, you would answer the phone, shred discarded documents, wash the laundry, clean and inventory returned equipment, participate in an annual “spring cleaning” of the offices and assist with various computer tasks such as document design and preparing donor “thank you” notes.

Other Volunteer Opportunities

Professional volunteers are also needed to assist patients with tasks as varied as will or tax preparation, haircuts, financial counseling, massage or artistic expression (music, art crafts).

We are always looking for volunteers to help plan and assist with various fundraising events. Volunteers are also needed to deliver, and later, pickup hospital beds and other equipment, deliver donor envelopes to local funeral homes and brochures to community service centers, and pickup donated items for fundraising events.

Use Your Skills

You have many options as a hospice volunteer. You also have the ability to choose assignments that best suit your time, skills and interests. Hospice staff, patients and families often acknowledge their appreciation for volunteers. Volunteers assist with:

• Barbering and Hair Styling
• Bereavement Calls
• Computer Input
• Equipment Moving
• Errands
• Friendly Visits
• Fundraising
• Handyman Chores
• House Cleaning
• Laundry
• Massage
• Medical Records
• Office Duties
• Professional Services
• Sewing
• Sitting with Patients
• Transportation
• And much, much more!

Make a Donation

At Loving Care, we appreciate anything you can do to help, no matter how large or small. Your donations help keep our organization operating, and in turn help all of the patients and families we serve. Your contribution also enables us reach more people, easing sorrow and stress for families in your community and others.

If you’re moved to donate, simply print, fill out and send in your donation. And coming soon is the availability of making donations online! Please check back soon for this new feature. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Thank you.

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