Services We Offer
Hospice Georgina staff and volunteers can provide emotional, social and spiritual support to individuals facing life-limiting illness. It can be helpful to have a good listener who understands and who offers simple companionship when it is so desperately needed. Well trained Hospice volunteers can help people to continue enjoying what is important in their lives despite health limitations.
Following an initial assessment, the Coordinator may be able to match a trained volunteer to start in-home visits. Volunteers support people through conversation, silence, a gentle hand or foot massage, offering a cup of tea, or providing respite to a tired caregiver. A volunteer is able to visit in the client's home, long-term care facility, retirement community, hospital room or other accommodation.
Examples of how a visiting volunteer may help:
- Companionship and active listening
- Running errands
- Assist with writing, scrap booking of life stories, story telling
- Reading out loud, playing cards, doing crafts
- Watching TV
- Providing a variety of non-medical comfort and services
- Just sitting quietly nearby so you are not alone
- Regular telephone check-in
- Information and advocacy to navigate systems within Palliative Care
- Provide respite and support to caregivers
N.B. Volunteers will not provide nursing, personal or medical care, give medications or offer advice or counseling.
