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Conference on Volunteers in care homes for older people

The Relatives & Residents Association

CONFERENCE

Volunteers in care homes for older people:

an underused opportunity?

Tuesday 17 July 2007, 10.15am–3.30pm

The London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre

356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA

Chair: Dr Gillian Dalley, Relatives & Residents Association

10.15     Registration and coffee

10.30     Dr Justin Davis-Smith, Director, Institute for Volunteering Research

              Volunteering: an overview

10.50     Dr Nori Graham, Emeritus Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, London and Vice President, Alzheimer’s Society, England

              What difference can volunteers make?

11.15     Coffee

11.30     Julie Lamont, Volunteering Manager, Brendoncare

              Establishing a volunteer programme

11.50     Helen Spiro, Volunteers Co-ordinator, Nightingale House

              Secrets of success

12.10     Panel discussion and questions from the floor

              Justin Davis-Smith, Nori Graham, Julie Lamont, Helen Spiro,

              Rose Heatley (author of R&RA report on volunteers in care homes)

12.45     Lunch

  1.45     Workshops

              1. Finding and keeping volunteers:

                  Karen Hamilton, Retired & Senior Volunteers Programme

                  Ruth Pressley, Chair, Association of Voluntary Service Managers

                  2. Templates for success:

                  Julie Lamont, Brendoncare

                  Speaker (TBC), Volunteering England

                  3. What can volunteers be enabled to do?

                  Rosemary Hurtley, Consultant Occupational Therapist

                  Dorothy Seymour, Help the Aged Sunshine Project

 3.15      Concluding discussion and tea

 3.30      Close

The Relatives & Residents Association

CONFERENCE

Volunteers in care homes for older people:

an underused opportunity?

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE

Volunteering in care homes for older people is rarely well established.  Research suggests that there may be many reasons why this is the case and yet it also shows how positive an experience it can be for both volunteers and care homes alike.

This conference builds on that research and considers some of the key findings from the report by Rose Heatley, Volunteers in care homes for older people: an underused opportunity? published by the R&RA (price £7.50; £5.00 to R&RA members).

In particular it will look at:

• volunteering in Britain today

   

• why care home residents may particularly benefit from volunteer support

   

• the benefits for residents, volunteers and care home staff

   

• building links between community and care home

   

• will volunteers work in the private sector?

   

• understanding volunteer motivation

   

• the roles volunteers can perform

   

• policies and procedures for volunteer involvement

   

• ideas for finding and keeping volunteers

   

• examples of current good practice

   

Who should attend?

• Volunteer organisers

   

• Care home activity organisers

   

• Care home managers and staff

   

• Care home providers

   

• Social care practitioners

   

• Members of older people’s organisations

   

• Organisations providing volunteers

   

• Volunteers and potential volunteers

   

DATE AND VENUE  

Tuesday 17 July 2007, 10.15am–3.30pm

The London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA

CONFERENCE ENQUIRIES  

The Relatives & Residents Association                                          Tel:      020 7359 8148

24 The Ivories                                                                            Fax:      020 7226 6603

6-18 Northampton Street                                                             Email:   info@relres.org

London N1 2HY                                                                           Web:    www.relres.org

The Relatives & Residents Association

CONFERENCE

Volunteers in care homes for older people:

an underused opportunity?

Tuesday 17 July 2007, 10.15am–3.30pm

The London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA

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