Found 23 Seniors & Aged Care volunteering opportunities in Australia

If you can spare an hour or two a week, join our rewarding program bringing companionship and friendship to older aged adults living in their own homes or in Aged Care faciliities in the Bunbury and Busselton regions.

Inclusion Melbourne is funded to provide the Community Visitors Scheme (CVS). Our volunteers share stories, go for a stroll, have a cuppa, listen to music or play a board game with their match. Volunteers play a vital role in the life of a person living in an aged care home or their own home through ongoing friendship. A minimum 12 month/ongoing commitment is also required.

Are you interested in helping reduce depression, anxiety and loneliness in older people living in residential aged care? Can you speak Hungarian fluently or do you want to practice your Hungarian conversation skills? If so, we invite you to become a befriender in our BEFRIENDAS research project!

Are you interested in helping reduce depression, anxiety and loneliness in older people living in residential aged care? If so, we invite you to become a befriender in our BEFRIENDAS research project! We have locations across Victoria.

We are looking for a reliable and committed volunteer to offer assistance with graphic design tasks. This role will see you support a number of Bethanie locations remotely, in the comfort of your own home.

People most suited to this role will have an empathetic,curious and gentle nature and would gather survey data, both quantitative and qualitative, from our aged care clients through phone based one to one surveys. This data will enable us to better understand our clients’ individual and collective experiences with Care Connect

Do you love all things digital? Can you speak fluent Italian? Have you been told you are patient and enjoy coaching and mentoring others? You could be instrumental in providing connection and confidence to isolated and lonely seniors through our Digital Mentor program. This is a virtual volunteering position with only 1 hour per week required. Our volunteers can be based anywhere in Australia!

The Australian Multicultural Community Services (AMCS) is currently seeking Italian speaking volunteers who live in Geelong area to visit Italian clients in Aged Care Facilities or Home Care clients.

This is an opportunity for people of all ages, who are interested in joining a dynamic and creative bulletin team that is united by a heart to bring support and companionship, through the gift of words. We are looking for remote volunteers who would like to contribute written pieces. We will support you in the process. This program was developed during the 2020 pandemic and has continued due to the success of the bulletin. We are looking for volunteers to contribute short articles fortnightly

Inclusion Melbourne is funded to provide the Community Visitors Scheme (CVS). Our volunteers share stories, go for a stroll, have a cuppa, listen to music or play a board game with their match. Volunteers play a vital role in the life of a person living in an aged care home or their own home through ongoing friendship.

We are seeking an English Speaking Volunteer with an Irish background to engage with an Irish aged care resident.

Volunteer from home during restrictions! You can help an elderly person in your community who is suffering loneliness.

Do you love gardening, sports, fishing or maybe something different? Share your passions and help an older person in your community! Our Community Visitors help elderly residents in aged care facilities or in their own home to stay connected to the community through regular social visits

Are you someone who wants to contribute to the community, but are unable to due to lockdown? Arcare has opportunities available for volunteers to join the remote Arcare Volunteer Bulletin team.

Are you tech-savvy and looking to help out? Gain practical experience and make a positive difference in your local community by providing one-on-one technology support to older people. This is an online, virtual volunteering position, supported by Living & Learning Nillumbik.

CarPal drivers take a five minute detour from a trip they were driving anyway to offer a Ride to Sydney Hills Shut-in Seniors needing to get out and about around Sydney after they hand in their drivers licences. CarPal is a Community Rideshare initiative a bit like Uber but with a kindness dividend rather than a commercial one.

Trinder Park Aged Care is looking for a Volunteer to assist in picking up groceries and shopping for the Aged Care residents

Do you speak Greek? Looking for a way give back to your community, can you Skype and list “listening” as one of your superpowers? We need you! We are seeking compassionate and reliable volunteers across Australia for our Digital Connection Program - whereby lonely seniors receive regular skype calls by volunteers for a cup of tea and a chat over video for half an hour a week or one hour a fortnight.

Volunteer visitors visit older people living in their own homes or in Aged Care Facilities who are lonely or socially isolated. Volunteers must reside in the Blue Mountains, NSW.

Looking for a way to give back to your community, have time spare each week and list “listening” as one of your superpowers? Can you Skype? Then listen up, because we need you! The Aurous Digital Connection Program is an initiative of Aurous, where isolated elderly people are given call-ready computer tablets and participate in a weekly video call with a volunteer “video visitor”. That visitor could be you.