As a volunteer, you bring your own special skills and interests to HRC. Here are some ways you can make a difference:

• Serve as a friendly visitor
  
  
• Help recreational therapists with activities
  
  
• Lead discussion groups, games, and more
  
  
• Promote exercise through the "Circle of Fitness" Program
  
  
• Help at mealtimes
  
  
• Be an elevator monitor
  
  
• Work in HRC's gift shop
  
  
• Assist nurses on residential units
  
  
• Transport individuals to HRC programs and clinical appointments
  
  
• Lend a hand in an office by answering phones or doing light clerical work
  
  
• Deliver books to residents from the HRC's roving library
  
  
• Escort residents to the synagogue for services on Friday afternoons or Saturday mornings and holidays or lead prayer services on the units on Fridays or holidays
  
  
• Assist the research department
  

Caring Matters

The rewards of volunteering are many, but none is as great as the knowledge that you can and do make a positive difference. Whenever you share your time, skills or talents, you are enhancing, directly or indirectly, the lives of the seniors we serve at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center. Volunteers are an integral part of our commitment to caring for the physical and emotional well-being of each and every senior. Volunteers founded HRC, and it is this tradition of giving that, more than a century later, helps keep it strong.

As a volunteer, your contribution brings a dimension and light to the spiritual and cultural foundation that is the heart of HRC.