Videographers and Video Editors Needed for Hospice Patients' Life Reviews

Become a Senior Independence Hospice Volunteer

Senior Independence Hospice is in search of Videographers and Video Editors for Life Review sessions!

Senior Independence desires volunteers who are willing to set-up and video patients as they share their life review. Videographers will set up and run basic videocamera equipment. Volunteer Coordiator will train volunteers on the equipment.

Video Editors are needed to edit life review videos and then burn videos to DVDs. Experience and personal PC will be necessary.

Video camera equipment will be provided. Volunteer editors will need their own computer to edit videos

Hospice is a special kind of caring. Hospice care is patient and family centered and seeks to provide support and comfort to those facing a life limiting illness. Volunteers play a large role in this effort by sharing their skills and interests in a manner that enriches the quality of life for those they serve.

Medicare also recognizes the importance of volunteers in the delivery of hospice care. Medicare requires that hospices utilize volunteers from their local community to augment the care the hospice agency provides. Nationally, over 100,000 people serve as hospice volunteers and give millions of hours of their time to serve terminally ill patients and their families.

How you can help

Hospice volunteers help patients and families in a variety of ways including some of the following:

• Companionship, listening, reading to patients
• Music & Memory
• Creating Life Reviews
• Spiritual support
• Errands, yard work, organization
• Creating memories (scrapbooks, audio/visual tapes, etc.)

Hospice volunteers can also provide the agency with clerical support in a variety of ways including:

• Internet research projects
• Photocopying/and filing
• Assembling information packets
• Assisting with mailings
• Making support telephone calls to patients and families