Amedisys Hospice


 

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What Does a Hospice Volunteer Do?

The activities you will do as an Amedisys hospice volunteer may be many and varied. From reading at a patient's bedside and knitting lap blankets, to running errands, providing pet therapy or helping with administrative duties - there's a wide range of possibilities. Common volunteer activities often include:

Patient visits for socialization and companionship. Some patients are alone and love to have visitors. Others do have a support system but still enjoy visiting with volunteers.

Activities with patients, like reading, playing games, participating in pet therapy, scrapbooking or other crafts – and just plain companionship.

Helping with household activities like running errands, arranging flowers, walking pets or other tasks to help keep things running smoothly.

Provide support for the patient – and the family – such as providing breaks for family/caregivers, so that they may run errands, grocery shop or just get alone time.  Making spiritual prayer calls, attending funerals and memorial services and offering companionship to loved ones.

Mission:
We honor those we serve with compassionate home health, hospice, and personal care services that apply the highest quality clinical practices toward allowing our patients to maintain a sense of independence, quality of life and dignity. 

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I am so very glad I started volunteering with Amedisys. It has made an impact on my life just as much as it has on the patients. Just sitting and talking to the patient's family member I can relate in some way to how her family member feels as to the struggle of not being able to communicate sometimes or have to move her mom around. Her daughter does it without any complaints because she loves her mother. It teaches one to become patient with others because that is a virtue not everyone has.