A Hospice Veteran Volunteer Visit or Group Veteran Project - Broward County, FL

VITAS wants to enlist your services to care for terminally ill veterans living at home and in nursing homes, assisted living communities and medical centers. VITAS Veteran Volunteers do not need to be U.S. Veterans; you need only the desire to remember; honor and support America’s living heroes.

VITAS Veteran Volunteers visit terminally ill veterans; accompany a veteran to appointments, shopping and other events; help a veteran apply for benefits or learn about available assistance; help replace lost or stolen military medals by contacting appropriate agencies; listen to life stories or record or videotape a veteran’s reminiscences; telephone veterans to ask how they are doing; attend or help plan activities celebrating Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day; educate veteran’s groups about hospice services by speaking at their meetings.

In addition, we are interested in groups (i.e. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Community Church groups, School clubs, etc that would be interested in doing a group project to provide items for our Veterans, such as knitting, crochet, sewing quilts blankets, hats, or making birthday cards, or making small little gift packages, etc. We would work on a l:1 basis with your group to figure out the project together.

Volunteer orientation teaches the skills required to be a hospice volunteer. VITAS Veteran Volunteers are further trained to meet specific end-of-life needs of veterans to improve their quality of life. Time and dates are ongoing and flexible. Orientation and training to be a VITAS Veteran Volunteer is free.

Veterans enjoy receiving visitors - people who will listen to their fading memories and reminiscences. Show a Veteran that he or she is never forgotten.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VITAS VOLUNTEER SERVICES VISIT: https://www.vitas.com/volunteer.