The benefits of beneficence: Rewards of hospice volunteering
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
- Vol. 12 (5), 14-18
- https://doi.org/10.1177/104990919501200507
Abstract
Hospice volunteering can provide many benefits to the volunteer as well as to the hospice program. identification of these benefits, which may be characterized as being of the body, mind, and spirit, is helpful in the recruitment of new volunteers as well as in the retention of current ones. it is important for hospice programs to find ways to assist volunteers to attain these rewards.Keywords
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