Training Volunteers for Service in a Home for the Aged


 

Publication Date: June 1959

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Arthur Kalish

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Institutional Care; Elderly; Volunteerism; Social Services

Type: Report

Coverage: Florida

Abstract:

The author outlines a program initiated by his agency, the Jewish Home for the Aged in Miami, FL, to incorporate volunteers into care for elderly clients. He reviews requirements for success in such a program, including explicitly designed rules and regulations, willingness on the part of staff to value the volunteer program and the volunteers themselves, ongoing training, and effective supervision.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, ed. By Sanford Sherman, v.35, no.4, June 1959, p.414-419.