My Services:
End-of-Life, Elder Care,
Care Consultant
What Doulagiver Specialists Do
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Acts as the eyes and ears for the hospice/medical team
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Create Living Well Aging Plans Provide holistic support to the elderly and their caregivers
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Teach about life
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Act as patient advocates and help navigate through the complex medical system.
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Educates on the physical aspects of dying
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Respite and support for the dying and their caregiver
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Connect the dying person and their loved ones with local resources
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Assistance with Advance Directive for Health Care at any stage of life
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Support the dying person and caregiver emotionally, physically, energetically, and spiritually
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Foster open communication with medical professionals, hospice teams, and other caregivers
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Facilitate Life Reviews
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Create Legacy Projects Encourage forgiveness dialogue between the dying person and loved ones
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Advocate for the dying person's final wishes
What Doulagiver Specialists Don't Do
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Death Doulas don’t give any medical advice
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Death Doulas don’t give any legal advice
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Mental health counseling
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Administer medications
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Medical care
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Funeral planning
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Will preparation
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Wound care
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Take over
As a Certified Elder Care Doula
Aging is a difficult, but integral part of our life. Having people to count on and care for your loved ones brings not only great quality of life to the patient, but also incredible peace of mind to those who love them.
As an Elder Care Doula, I am specifically trained to provide holistic (physical, emotional, and spiritual) care for the elderly. An Elder Care Doula cares for aging seniors by simply being a companion through the aging process.
As a Doulagivers Specialist I will provide ongoing support to both the patient and their families at the time of and throughout the end-of-life process. Due to the reality of the modern family structure and our increasingly challenged medical system, we need additional options to support and care for the precious, aging population.
Holistic Care til the End
In this offering, I will provide holistic care to the elderly by:
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Building Trust
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Finding Out What Matters Most (It is important for you to understand what matters most to you and your family and how to discover this crucial information)
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Creating An Action Plan (Having a plan helps to give you peace of mind when you and your family need it most)
The Doulagivers Specialist Certification is the ultimate training program providing the highest level of progressive education for those who have chosen a career being in holistic end of life care and planning.
12 Informative Seminars
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How Did We Get Here? How did we get to a place in our world where death is the #1 Fear?
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What is Hospice Care and how does it work? What is the Hospice Gap and how can you fill it?
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What is an Advance Directive? Are they legally binding? What you NEED to do to make it a legal medical order.
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What is a Healthcare Proxy? How do I pick one?
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What does quality of life mean to you? Why THIS should be the benchmark for whether you move forward with treatments or not.
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How to ensure the best end of life experience for yourself. The 9 Essential Questions you NEED to answer.
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How to have a family conversation about your end of life wishes.
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What to do when families do not agree on end of life care for a loved one.
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How to give your family a “blueprint” for your end of life care and why this is such a GIFT to them.
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What are Home Wakes/Home Funerals? The benefits, and how to have one.
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The New Dying Options: Traditional Burial vs Natural Burial, water cremations, human composting and more!
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Grief and Bereavement: The TRUTH about grief and how to have the healthiest bereavement period possible
Please contact me if you are interested in a FREE Seminar Series at your location.
In this free webinar, conducted by the founder of Doulagivers Institute, Suzanne B. O’Brien RN, you will learn how to care for someone who is dying from the time of a terminal diagnosis all the way through until the end-of-life.
You will learn the 3 Phases at End of Life model of care that Suzanne teaches in her professional certification programs at Doulagivers Institute, as well as interventions to provide comfort and support to both patients and their families in each phase.
Infused with real bedside stories, this training empowers people with the skills to care for their loved ones at the end of life, help heal grief from past experiences with death, and reduce the fear of death in general.
It also aims to provide insightful and priceless wisdom from those ready to leave this world about how to live fully and make the most out of life’s journey!
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The Doulagivers Nine Choice Advance Directive
The Doulagivers 9 Choice Advance Directive was created by Suzanne B. O’Brien, RN after her extensive work with those at the end of life for over 2 decades as a hospice and oncology nurse. There is not one Advance Directive document available (up until now) that encompasses all the necessary choices that a person needs to answer to not only have a positive end of life for themselves, but to guide their loved ones in a step by step plan on how to best support them in this final phase.
This document is available by Doulagivers Institute for free so that everyone everywhere has the support they need to have a positive end of life
Get it here
Pricing
LIFE-CARE DOULA SERVICES, L.L.C. PRICING
Care Consultant
Elder Care
End of Life Guide
Grief Guide/Bereavement
$20 Per Hour
FREE 30-minute Phone Consultations to assess your needs
$20/ Hour for in home care & consultation services
Packages:
10 Hours- $180 Savings of $20
25 Hours- $450 Savings of $50
50 Hours- $900 Savings of $100
Contracts available with initial home visit, no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
In Love, & Service,
Deanie Kehres