End of Life Doula
As your End of life doula, I can:
Assist with the completion of your Advanced Care Plan.
Provide safe and engaging conversation to explore end-of-life concerns, as well as facilitate end-of-life conversations between you, your family and friends.
Help you and your family plan legacy projects and create meaningful ceremonies which may be performed before, during and after death.
Provide suggestions and increase awareness of other resources available through the larger End of Life Doula and Death Care community.
Sit vigil in the home or in a hospital/hospice.
It is important that clients understand the scope of my practice, and know that I deeply respect their individual journeys. As an End of life doula, I do not:
Perform clinical duties or provide medical advice.
I do not insert my personal beliefs into the process and do not make any decisions on my client’s behalf or that of their family.
What is an End of Life Doula?
End-of-life doulas empower, educate and encourage people and their families to be involved in making decisions before, during and after death. They provide a wide variety of services that can include creating death plans, as well as providing spiritual or social support, including helping plan funerals, celebrations, and other commemorative ceremonies. Often, end of life doulas help facilitate important conversations between individuals and their families (or chosen families) to ensure all are clear and aligned on end of life wishes.
What is an Advanced Care Plan?
Advance care planning begins by thinking about your beliefs, values and wishes regarding future health care treatment. It is about having conversations with your close family, friends and health care provider(s) so that they know the health care treatment you would agree to, or refuse, if you become incapable of expressing your own decisions.
When you write down your wishes and instructions for future health care, you are making an Advance Care Plan. An Advance Care Plan is a written summary of a capable adult’s wishes or instructions to guide a substitute decision maker if that person is asked by a physician or other health care provider to make a health care treatment decision on behalf of the adult.
Sample Packages
Please contact me for your free 30-minute consultation, available by phone or on Zoom to discuss your specific needs and create your own unique end of life support package.
General consulting $100/hour
Advance Care Plan + End of Life Conversion + Legacy Project Plan (8-hours) $750
Advance Care Plan
Opportunity to delve deeper into questions arising from questions about EOL options including death in hospital/hospice, planned death at home, home funerals, MAID, burial options, for example.
Assistance identifying and planning how to make/obtain/organize any memorial, gift, presentation, activity, you would like to prepare with or present to friends and family to capture your legacy. This could include: Video projects, Letter writing ,Memorial benches, Celebrations of Life.
Advance Care Plan + Broader End of Life Conversion (4-hours) $350
Completion of Advance Care Plan
Opportunity to delve deeper into questions arising from questions about EOL options including death in hospital/hospice, planned death at home, home funerals, MAID, burial options, for example.
Advance Care Plan Only (3-hours) $300
Basic assistance completing an Advanced Care Plan
Explanation of terminology, options and implications of selections.
