How does one going about volunteering in a home health setting?

[lee9786]

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I'd like to get some experience volunteering in the home health care setting. Anyone else experience this process and could offer advise on how to go about setting this up?

 

[vinganca]

You just have to phone round to local home health agencies, explain what you need, and see what they say. Start with small, locally-owned independent agencies, as you'll probably have better luck there. It can be a lot more difficult to get a corporate-run HHA to agree to let you shadow a PT. All the ones I phoned around here said it wasn't possible cos it violates their privacy policies. But the locally-owned HHA just had me sign a form saying that I understand I'm not allowed to talk about the patients to anyone.