Hospice palliative care volunteers: a review of commonly encountered stressors, how they cope with them, and implications for volunteer training/management

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Mar 2016, vol. 31, no. 2, p. 201-204

Claxton-Oldfield, Stephen

The results of this review suggest that hospice volunteers generally do not perceive their work as highly stressful.  However, potential challenges and the ways in which the volunteers coped with them were identified.