Here are activities other HAH services have used to adopt a radically different approach to volunteer involvement.
- Reframing HAH/provider approach to volunteering within the paradigm of “compassionate communities” by:
- Either tolerating a different level of “risk” and a less tightly controlled volunteer workforce within the hospice, allowing volunteers to act more like neighbours without a great deal of bureaucracy and procedure (and maintaining a triad relationship between the volunteer, the family and the hospice).
- Or working with “compassionate communities” existing schemes, possibly sharing volunteers, but much more like neighbours (maintaining a dyad between family and volunteer, with the hospice relinquishing tighter control of volunteers)