Volunteers successfully complete preparation course:
Our fourteen new hospice volunteers are looking forward to accompanying the dying with dignity on their final journey. They have just completed their six-month preparation course and will in future accompany dying people and their relatives in their most difficult hours. This requires background knowledge and a great deal of sensitivity in order to provide the best possible support to the dying.
Do not be alone in difficult hours
Our hospice volunteers accompany the dying in hospitals, nursing homes and at home - according to their wishes: Some would like to talk, others would like to remain silent. The volunteers give time and attention, listen, read aloud, and stand by the side of the relatives: each end-of-life care is completely individual and specifically tailored to what is good for the dying. For this purpose, the hospice companions were trained in a special preparatory course of 100 hours of instruction and a 40-hour internship in a nursing home, an outpatient palliative service or a palliative care unit.
The coordinators of our outpatient hospice service, Christiane Pröllochs and Doris Detering, as well as Steffen Schmid, Vice Chairman of our regional association and responsible for the volunteers in ASB-Mannheim/Rhein-Neckar, are very happy about the new hospice companions. "Dying is part of life and I am pleased that our new hospice companions carry out the hospice idea of dignified dying and accompany the dying," says Christiane Pröllochs. Steffen Schmid adds: "We are incredibly proud to welcome the new hospice companions into the ranks of our volunteers, who support people in all situations of life true to the ASB motto "we help here and now"."
For more information on our outpatient hospice service, click here.