Volunteer
Photo by Cheri Haley
At The Edgewood Centre, we love our volunteers!
Opportunities abound for people from all walks of life interested in sharing their interests with the residents of our NH nursing home.
Opportunities to help
We specialize in matching our volunteers’ skills and special interests with those of our residents– people at Edgewood for long term care and those accessing Alzheimer’s dementia care, pediatric care, or our state of the art skilled rehabilitation services.
There are volunteer opportunities for people of all ages. Young professionals come to Edgewood to share skills in photography during free time on the weekends, older volunteers come to share meals with a favorite resident, and children from the community come in to adopt residents as foster grandparents.
Ways to have fun doing it
For volunteers at Edgewood, nursing home activities aren’t limited to bingo and sing-a-longs. Whether you have a little time or alot, there are dozens of ways to bring joy to the lives of others at our nursing facility.
- Assist residents with painting, crafts, or other creative projects.
- Using our laptop computer, help a resident check and respond to e-mail or view favorite web sites.
- Be a part of the Vitamin D Club and stroll with residents who want to enjoy the outdoors.
- Join our buddy program and enrich someone’s life by coming in to talk, listen, enjoy music together, or pursue an activity of your interest.
- Treat a resident to a spa experience. We provide all the supplies to set you up as an amateur nail artist-everyone loves to be pampered!
- Join staff in running an existing poetry or creative writing group. Read literature out loud and help residents capture their thoughts on paper.
- Help us form a nursing home knitting circle so that residents who spent a lifetime knitting will be able to practice their skills again.
- Assist as a hostess at wine and cheese parties, dessert buffets, and other celebrations.
- Enjoy baking and cooking with the residents. There’s nothing like the smell of home-baked cookies in the oven! We provide the supplies and some extra help-you get to be Betty Crocker!
- Share your musical talents while utilizing a great free space to rehearse. Play your violin while our residents eat dinner or practice for your recital on our baby grand piano.
- Bring in a well-behaved pet who can bring joy to our residents. Sign up to be part of our elderly care pet therapy program.
Feel comfortable, feel at home
There is no set time limit– give as much or as little time as you have. Volunteer work can be done one on one with residents or in small group settings with the help of one of our talented recreation staff people.
Our full-time volunteer coordinator is on-site at our long term care facility to provide all the supplies, equipment, and encouragement you might need.
The secret of volunteering at Edgewood is simple. Whatever you give comes back to you in ways you cannot even imagine. It’s part of the magic of the place-you’ll feel at home here.
For more information or to get started, call Annetta Marconi, our volunteer coordinator, at 603-766-2325 or e-mail recreation@edgewoodcentre.com.
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