Volunteer Guide – East Texas and The Golden Triangle

 “Caring for Those Who Need You Most”

On today’s Southeast Texas Senior Citizen Volunteer Opportunities, we look volunteering with one of our Southeast Texas hospice agencies.

Southeast Texans, particularly Southeast Texas senior citizens are a big hearted group.

Golden Triangle senior citizens can be found volunteering in Beaumont, Port Arthur, Orange, and Silsbee museums, our Southeast Texas Hospitals, with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, with local festivals and rodeos, and in hundreds of other ways big and small. Each Southeast Texas senior volunteer opportunity offers a different experience and emotional reward.

Many Southeast Texas senior citizens who have been touched by the difference Hospice has made in the life of a friend or family member spend time volunteering with Southeast Texas Hospice care organizations.

Volunteers are literally, the heart of Harbor Hospice, providing a special kind of caring and compassion for patients and their families.

Each day, Golden Triangle and East Texas hospice volunteers make a difference in the lives of many people.

Whether they offer a listening ear to patients and families, assist with daily household activities for Southeast Texas hospice care patients, provide grief support to family members, serve as a companion to seniors or their loved ones or share their personal experiences to help promote the mission of hospice care in Southeast Texas, the time given to Hospice families by volunteers can be the most rewarding experiences of their lives.

As a volunteer for Harbor Hospice’s Patient Care Services, you “do good” every day. It takes a very special, caring person to give of themselves as unselfishly as Harbor Hospice patient care volunteers.

If you’d like to be a part of the Harbor Hospice volunteer team, here are some examples of the activities you can assist with:

• Reading to a patient or holding a hand
• Staying with a patient while family members take a needed break or keep an appointment
• Shopping or doing errands for a patient
• Listening
• Helping patients write or tell their life stories
• Cooking, light household chores
• Providing help with makeup and hair
• Assisting with bathing, shaving or other personal care
• Working on crafts or other projects – even doing a puzzle or quilting together

If you would like to volunteer with one of our East Texas hospice agencies, , please contact them directly and ask for their hospice care coordinator.

Hospice Care is available across the Golden Triangle and East Texas including the communities of Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Woodville, Jasper, Sam Rayburn, Vidor, Orange, Lumberton, Kountze, Silsbee, Crystal Beach, Liberty, Dayton, Hampshire, and Fannett.

We hope today’s edition Southeast Texas Senior Citizen Volunteer Opportunities was helpful for you or a friend.

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• Daryl Fant, Publisher East Texas Senior Magazine

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