Am interested learning palliative care and be a volunteer. Am not a dr nor a nurse pls.Can anyone help me?

deepar,
let first congrajulate you for having such a wonderfull idea.
i dont know much about your academic qualification.so let me give you few suuggestions that might help you.
1.Get to know about organisations like old age homes, that which help people with HIV other debilitating illness,organisations that work with physically/mentally challenged children,that are close to your localility.
2.Try and find out how you could work with them.
by doing the above 2 I beleive you will come to more about feild of work you intend to persue.
3.Try and contact redcross soceity find out more about them ,the various ares of works they are involved in ,how you can work with them? etc.
4.find out more about collge for human resources ,the corses they offer whether they have some thing to offer you that deals with areas of palliative care and social volnteer.
Ihope this helps you,ALL THE BEST!

Talk to an inpatient hospice. Maybe u could sit with patients when their families can't be there. Without a license, u can't give them medications or anything, but u could give them comfort.

Go visit one I'm sure they'll welcome your help. Maybe they'll point you in the right direction so you can get some accreditation behind you. This field of work really needs help especially with the ageing population. Go for it. I have a lot of respect for people who help others.

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