Table of Contents

1: Steven Howlett: The modern context of volunteering
2: Sheila Payne and Sara Morris: The modern context of palliative care
3: Ros Scott: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in the UK
4: Leena Pelttari and Anna H. Pissarek Austria: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Austria
5: Anne Goossensen and Jos Somsen: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in the Netherlands
6: Michaela Hesse and Lukas Radbruch: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Germany
7: Piotr Krakowiak and Leszek Pawlowski: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Poland and Eastern Europe
8: Stephen Claxton-Oldfield: Volunteering in hospice palliative care in Canada
9: Greg Schneider: Volunteering in USA
10: Alex Huntir: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Australia
11: Fatia Kiyange: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in Africa
12: Anil Kumar Paleri and Libby Sallnow: Volunteering in hospice and palliative care in India
13: Nigel Hartley: Volunteering and the challenges of change
14: Libby Sallnow and Heather Richardson: Volunteering and community
15: Ros Scott: In our own words
16: Steven Howlett and Ros Scott: Pulling it all together

About the Author

Ros Scott is a researcher and voluntary sector consultant with a background in organisational development, research and the development of volunteering and of palliative care organisations. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Dundee.

Co-Chair of the European Association for Palliative Care Task Force on Volunteering, she is also Vice-Chair of a Scottish bereavement charity and serves on the Scottish Advisory Board of a UK palliative care organisation.

She writes about and also presents on hospice and palliative care volunteering both in the UK and internationally. She has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award for work in hospice volunteering.
Steven Howlett is a Deputy Director at Roehampton Business School where he teaches undergraduate and post graduate courses in management and ethics. Previously he was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Volunteering research where he completed many studies on volunteering.

Reviews

The book is well laid out and written in an easy to use manner. It begins with setting the scene of volunteering and the modern context of hospice and palliative care. The book is well referenced and covers a range of topics making for a balanced and thought provoking read.
*Helen Reeves, Nursing Times*

If you run a palliative care volunteer service, or a palliative care service with a volunteer program, you need to read this book. Not only will it give you an in-depth view of where things are at, but also how things are changing in countries from around the world.
*Roger Woodruff, IAHPC Newsletter*