Published: 2018-04-06

Motivation of hospice volunteers in the past and today

Anna Seredyńska
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Colloquia
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2018.1.20

Abstract

The first hospices in Poland were opened in 1970s, however, the reasons why people decided to volunteer in such places in the past and why they do it today differ. The article presents the ideas governing hospice volunteering over forty years ago on the basis of an interview with Ewa Bodek, an ex-coordinator of voluntary service in St. Lazarus Hospice in Cracow. This interview is now being prepared for publication. Present volunteers' motivation is analysed on the basis of interviews with candidates for voluntary service in St. Lazarus Hospice in Cracow conducted during the last four recruitment processes. The novelty of the article lies in juxtaposition of qualitative research on motivation of the first hospice volunteers in Poland and the results of the analysis of the motivation of contemporary candidates for voluntary service in St. Lazarus Hospice in Cracow.

Keywords:

voluntary service, motivation, hospice

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Seredyńska, A. (2018). Motivation of hospice volunteers in the past and today. Pedagogical Forum, 8(1), 297–308. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2018.1.20

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