Lion’s Gate Hospital has
evolved a unique one-to-one
volunteer visitors training
program, wherein a person
who Cares, can learn to put
his gifts to work in a caring
relationship.

Being old can be, and
often is, a lonely and
frustrating experience for
many of our senior citizens.
Some have lost their family
and friends. Suddenly,
overnight, it seems the older
person is alone, cut off from
those he knew.

Then our older citizens

may feel out of place as he :

no longer fits into the life of
the younger people around

i If a_ disability or
sickness happens to him, he

finds that he can no longer. -

carry out the most routine
functions. He may be
permanently impaired in
some physical way for the
rest of his life. He finds that
he must now depend largely
on other persons for all the
things he used to do for
himself.

No person likes the
thought of being dependent
upon others for the basics of
life, yet it is a tragic fact of
life. As the numbers of
older, dependent persons
increase, the need for
understanding, loving care
and compassionate helping
people grows too -- persons
who can see the need of our
older citizens and respond in
a caring way to that need.

New life and new hope can
come thraugh a_ caring
relationship.

This fall a four week
training course for such
volunteers is being offered

PATIENTS LIKE OLIVER (in wheelchair) enjoy much appreciated support from

volunteers like the three in the centre of the group — Diane McTavish, George
Wilson and Fred Talley. With them are Lions Gate Hospital chaplain Merle Snustead

(extreme left) and social worker Ofelia Buluran

photo)

consisting of four two-hour,
sessions:

Wednesday, October 14,
7:30 p.m., The Hospital
Setting.

Wednesday, October 21,
7:W® p.m., The Volunteer As
A Person. j

Wednesday, October 28,
7:30 p.m., The Volunteer’s

-Role In The Hospital.

Wednesday, November 4,
7:3 p.m., The Volunteer’s

Relationship With
Residents.

The course will be held in
the Seminar Room,
Evergreen House, North
Vancouver,

Volunteers wishing to take
part in these exciting and
stimulating sessions should
phone Rev. Merie Snustead,
chaplain of Lions Gate
Hospital, at 988-3131, local
441 or social worker Ofelia
Buluran at local 470.

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