Education and guidance through new diagnosis, clarification and logistical coordination of care options, accompany client at doctor appointments, address concerns and challenging emotions, and explore values, goals, and preferences for future medical care

Explore concerns, needs and wishes to help complete Advance Healthcare Directive, choose health-care proxy (health-care agent), map out health care options and possibilities and clarify the wishes of loved ones to help lessen the burden on the family of making difficult medical decisions, especially during a crisis

Navigate major late-life transitions, initiate and facilitate conversations with key support people, address complex family dynamics and other influential factors

Funeral and burial plans, life reviews, celebrations of life, prepare individualized content for legal wills and living trusts, consider ideas for legacy projects and memorials

Providing ongoing education about palliative care and hospice, when to contact hospice, understand what to expect and the normal physiological processes of dying, have regular communication with palliative and hospice teams, understanding difference between hospice and doula support, emotional support for client and family, fill service gaps of hospice, provide limited respite, anticipate potential challenges in care and coping

Sitting vigil (bedside support during active dying), support for both client and family during transition, honoring sacred space based on client preferences, holding space (allowing without judgment of emotions, thoughts, and reactions, while meeting people where they are and promoting peace of mind

Creating in partnership with client and family, memories of one’s life legacy through videography (waver needed), art, biographies, music, letter writing, photo collages, memorial gardens & benches

Supporting families and clients through anticipatory grief, post-death grief, trauma processing, bereavement/mourning (the physical process of grieving) and grief (the emotional and mental suffering associated with death and loss)

Exploring life after loss, mind mapping, vision boards, identifying fears, concerns, wishes, and choices for the future without a deceased loved one, anticipating a new normal and planning for the first year after loss