AHVRP extraordinary awards includes 'Friend to friend grocery and pharmacy shopping'
The Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resouce Professionals is an American organisation. Every year they award exceptional volunteers. In 2004 the award went to a scheme to help elderly people who have recently been discharged from Mease hospitals in Florida.
- A room with a view - Surroundings
- Are you sitting comfortably - Physical comfort
- Cleanliness is next to godliness - hygeine
- Food glorious food - Appetising food
- Getting to know you - Communication
- It's childsplay - All about children
- Let me entertain you - Coping with boredom
- Pleased to meet you - The welcome
- Relatively speaking - Relatives and carers
- The waiting game - Waiting rooms
- There's no place like home - Going home
- Trumpet voluntary - All about volunteers
- A death in the family - Empathy and compassion
- Long Term Care - The long and winding road
- Mobility - Getting there