The Changing Face of Volunteering in Hospice and Palliative Care

Volunteers will have a vital role in delivering the services of the future. This book explores volunteering in hospice and palliative care worldwide, analysing how and why volunteering is changing. Key topics discussed include influences of culture, legislation, and the place of volunteering within the multi-professional team.

Ros Scott is a researcher and voluntary sector consultant with a background in organisational development, research and the development of volunteering and of palliative care organisations. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Dundee.
Co-Chair of the European Association for Palliative Care Task Force on Volunteering, she is also Vice-Chair of a Scottish bereavement charity and serves on the Scottish Advisory Board of a UK palliative care organisation.
She writes about and also presents on hospice and palliative care volunteering both in the UK and internationally. She has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award for work in hospice volunteering.
Steven Howlett is a Deputy Director at Roehampton Business School where he teaches undergraduate and post graduate courses in management and ethics. Previously he was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Volunteering research where he completed many studies on volunteering.

1: Steven Howlett: The modern context of volunteering
2: Sheila Payne and Sara Morris: The modern context of palliative care
3: Ros Scott: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in the UK
4: Leena Pelttari and Anna H. Pissarek Austria: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Austria
5: Anne Goossensen and Jos Somsen: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in the Netherlands
6: Michaela Hesse and Lukas Radbruch: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Germany
7: Piotr Krakowiak and Leszek Pawlowski: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Poland and Eastern Europe
8: Stephen Claxton-Oldfield: Volunteering in hospice palliative care in Canada
9: Greg Schneider: Volunteering in USA
10: Alex Huntir: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Australia
11: Fatia Kiyange: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Africa
12: Anil Kumar Paleri and Libby Sallnow: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in India
13: Nigel Hartley: Volunteering and the challenges of change
14: Libby Sallnow and Heather Richardson: Volunteering and community
15: Ros Scott: In our own words
16: Steven Howlett and Ros Scott: Pulling it all together