A narrative literature review of the contribution of volunteers in end-of-life care services.

The article discusses a review exploring the recent literature on end-of-life care volunteering and reflects upon the issues pertinent to current organisational challenges and opportunities. It states that articles reporting on research or evaluation of adult end-of-life care services that use volunteers were included. It is concluded that the majority of articles were small in scale and diverse in methodology, but the same topics repeatedly emerged from the qualitative and quantitative data.