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Be a Hospice Volunteer in Greater Boston

Two training options-- starts September 17

Care Dimensions, the region's largest provider of hospice care, will hold training classes for those interested in becoming volunteers for the nonprofit organization.

We need volunteers to visit patients in their homes, as well as greet families and visitors at our new Care Dimensions Hospice House in Lincoln, on the Waltham line.

We offer two training options for those interested in volunteering in greater Boston:
Daytime: Wednesday and Friday afternoons, September 18 - October 11, 1 – 3:30 p.m. at the Care Dimensions Hospice House, 125 Winter Street in Lincoln (on the Waltham line).
OR
Evenings: Tuesday and Thursdays, September 17 – October 10, 6 – 8:30 p.m. at Care Dimensions Hospice House, 125 Winter Street in Lincoln (on the Waltham line).
To register or to learn more, call 781-373-6583 or email ALangmead@CareDimensions.org. Or complete our online Volunteer Application. Or read some stories from our current hospice volunteers.
About Care Dimensions
Care Dimensions is a non-profit, community-based leader in advanced illness care providing comprehensive hospice, palliative care, grief support and teaching programs in 95 communities in Eastern Massachusetts. Celebrating 40 years of service, Care Dimensions was founded in 1978 as Hospice of the North Shore, and cares for patients wherever they live – in their homes, skilled nursing facilities or assisted living communities, in hospitals, or at our two inpatient hospice facilities (the new Care Dimension Hospice House in Lincoln, and the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers). To learn more about Care Dimensions or to view a tour of our hospice houses, please visit www.CareDimensions.org.

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