How to become a hospice volunteer?

As a hospice care volunteer, care for patients includes physical care, spiritual care, spiritual care and other aspects.

1. Body care: Reduce pain through care from medical staff and family members, and enhance physical strength with natural and healthy diet.

2. Spiritual care: By establishing the concept of alleviating fear, anxiety, complaints, worries, etc., we can make them feel reassured, reassured, hopeful and confident about the future world (referring to the afterlife).

3. Spiritual care (Buddhism considers it to be Taoist care): Looking back on life, seeking the meaning of life or establishing the value of life through religion and methods, such as eternal life, ascension, and Western Heaven, etc., to achieve successful end-of-life care.

When patients are in a terminal state, they sleep longer and longer and are difficult to wake up. This is the result of changes in body metabolism. Moreover, the patient's pain and physical discomfort will be relieved during sleep, so do not force it. Wake the patient. Family members can spend more time with the patient when he or she is awake and interact more with the patient, such as watching family photo albums and videos together, and telling the patient interesting family stories from the past.

Hearing is usually the last sense to disappear, so dying patients can still hear the voices of their loved ones while they are dying. Family members can often maintain dialogue with the patient, often explain what they are doing, and have the courage to express their inner feelings without leaving any regrets.

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The significance of hospice care

Hospice care meets the objective requirements of human beings in pursuit of high quality of life. With the progress of human social civilization, people’s attention to life The quality of life and death have put forward higher requirements. In order to allow the patient to gain peace, calmness and comfort when he or she dies, so that the family members do not leave any regrets or shadows after the death of the patient.

At the same time, hospice care is a symbol of social civilization. Hospice care is a social welfare undertaking that is carried out to allow patients to reach the other side of life with dignity and comfort.

Hospice care embodies the lofty medical professional ethics. The core content of medical professional ethics is to respect the value of patients, including the value of life and personal dignity. As the specific implementers, medical staff fully embody the noble medical professional ethics with the purpose of improving the value and quality of life.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Hospice Care