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    Anna is a 16-year-old volunteer at a local nursing home in Liverpool, UK. She helps residents with daily activities like getting dressed, serving meals, taking walks, and playing games. Her duties provide company for residents and allow nursing staff to focus on care. Anna benefits from career advice and experience for her resume. She enjoys getting to know the residents and hearing their stories of the past. The volunteer work benefits residents through social interaction, nursing home staff by relieving stress, and families who can visit less often knowing their relatives have company.

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    Anna is a 16-year-old volunteer at a local nursing home in Liverpool, UK. She helps residents with daily activities like getting dressed, serving meals, taking walks, and playing games. Her duties provide company for residents and allow nursing staff to focus on care. Anna benefits from career advice and experience for her resume. She enjoys getting to know the residents and hearing their stories of the past. The volunteer work benefits residents through social interaction, nursing home staff by relieving stress, and families who can visit less often knowing their relatives have company.

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    Anna is a 16-year-old volunteer at a local nursing home in Liverpool, UK. She helps residents with daily activities like getting dressed, serving meals, taking walks, and playing games. Her duties provide company for residents and allow nursing staff to focus on care. Anna benefits from career advice and experience for her resume. She enjoys getting to know the residents and hearing their stories of the past. The volunteer work benefits residents through social interaction, nursing home staff by relieving stress, and families who can visit less often knowing their relatives have company.

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    VOLUNTEERING IN A NURSING HOME

    Hi. I am Anna, I’m 16 years old and I live in Liverpool UK. Recently, I decided that I wanted to
    volunteer and contribute something to my local community. I decided to spend my Saturday
    mornings volunteering at a local nursing home. I want to be a nurse so this seemed a great
    choice. But what does it entail? Read on to find out about my experiences.
    First of all. What is a nursing home? I was shown around the building and this is what I saw. It is
    different from a hospital and is a place where the elderly, disabled people, and those who need
    special healthcare stay. These people do not need to be in hospital but they need more care than
    the family can provide adequately at home. The nursing home can have long term or short-term
    residents. There are qualified nurses and also unqualified nursing aides as staff.
    Then, I was interviewed. The nurse who interviewed me said that the ideal volunteer for this role
    should be a friendly, outgoing and patient person. I passed the interview and was given training
    to make sure that I could carry out my duties properly. I was told that I didn’t need special skills
    but I would be involved in simple tasks like reading to the residents, chatting or playing board
    games. Some volunteers can bring special skills to the nursing homes such as cutting hair or
    entertaining the residents with musical performances. I was even be taught how to drive a
    wheelchair!
    After I was given my uniform and a name badge, I was allowed to begin. My nursing home has
    around twenty long term elderly patients. When I arrive, we have a staff meeting to find out on
    what has happened the night before, if there are any problems that we should be aware of and
    then the volunteer leader gives me my duties for the morning. I am usually there from 10am until
    2pm, but I volunteer for full days in my holidays.
    I start by helping the less able residents dress. I have four women that I help each week so I get
    to know them and build up a relationship with them. Then it is time to serve breakfast to the
    residents in their rooms and I try to sit with one of them while they eat to give them some
    company. I then either take a couple of residents for a walk around the garden or wheel them if
    they are immobile. If the weather is bad, I will play Monopoly or Scrabble…I always lose…or I
    sit with a group and we watch TV together. At coffee time I organize the music for the residents
    to listen to and we sometime sing along! If they need help with technology such as sending
    emails, I also do that for them. In the holidays, I will be with the staff that take the residents to
    days out such as to the seaside or the cinema. No day is the same and I really like the variety it
    offers.
    I feel that are benefits for everybody when I volunteer. For the residents, there is the increased
    interaction which helps lessen their feelings of loneliness. Studies have shown that when the
    elderly interact with young volunteers this increases their cognition levels. For the nursing staff,
    volunteers spending time with the residents means that they have more time to focus on
    providing higher quality nursing care and this decreases their stress levels. The families do not
    need to visit so often as they know their elderly relatives have company.
    It has been a great experience for me. I have had the chance to get career advice from senior staff
    which will really help me in the future. It is also a useful activity to add to my nursing college
    resume. Finally, the biggest bonus of my volunteering has been collecting lots of extra
    grandparents! I love hearing their stories about the old days in my city.
    You and your community could really benefit if you volunteer like me. I recommend this activity
    for everyone. Contact your local nursing home and see what you can do!

    VOCABULARY
    Contribute/give, donate
    Entail/need, require
    Adequately/good enough
    Aides/an assistant to a nurse
    Immobile/unable to walk
    Interaction/communication between people
    Cognition/thought processes
    Resume/a description of your school, exam and work experience

    DISCUSSION
    1. What can young and old people learn from each other?
    2. Should all young people carry out volunteer work as part of their school
    curriculum? Give reasons for your answer.
    3. What facilities are important in a nursing home to make it a nice place to live?

    VIDEOS
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBqQs5Ae8Hs&ab_channel=ModernAging-HolisticHealth
    %26WellnessAfter50

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Nn3Pxqk1c&ab_channel=NowThisKids

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