Watts, Jacqueline H.
(2012).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.2190/IL.20.2.b |
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Abstract
Drawing on recent qualitative research undertaken in a large English hospice, this article discusses the experience of being a hospice volunteer. The research explored a range of issues connected to the process and experience of voluntary work in this setting including who volunteers, what roles volunteers take up, how they are trained and supported and the ways in which role boundaries are established and maintained. The research revealed that hospice volunteering is rewarding but often emotionally challenging and is now highly routinised and closely monitored in ways paralleling practices in the paid labour market. Although volunteers freely give their time to the work of hospice, their activities are subject to significant management prescription, with hospices increasingly adopting sophisticated business models to underpin their operation and, in many cases, their expansion (Watts, 2010).
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. |
| ISSN: | 1552-6969 |
| Keywords: | death and dying; hospices; palliative care; volunteering; work |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Health and Social Care |
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| Item ID: | 32506 |
| Depositing User: | Jacqueline H. Watts |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2012 12:56 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2013 18:13 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/32506 |
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