Sharing Stories from End-of-Life Doulas
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -From the University of Vermont Professional and Continuing Education, we bring you stories from End-of-Life Doulas. We explore how Death Doulas trained through UVM's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Program, are supporting the dying and their families.
End-of-Life Doula students and practicing Doulas share their stories about helping people during their end of life journey. End-of-Life Doulas complement the care provided by family members and friends, as well as medical, palliative, and hospice professionals, within the settings of hospitals, senior care facilities, and homes.
Death Doulas support clients with individualized, compassionate care in a number of ways, including emotional, spiritual, informational, and physical support, which greatly helps to lower stress levels, aid in comfort, and promote personalized, even positive, dying passages for clients and their loved ones.
Become a death doula today: go.uvm.edu/doula
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End-of-Life Doula and National End-of-Life Doula Alliance President Angela Shook Shares Her Perspective on Doula Work During the Pandemic
March 01, 2021 15:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBAngela Shook considers herself a natural nurturer. She has always been drawn to non-profit work and especially to hospice, or end of life care. She experienced first-hand the quality of care that hospice provided to her grandfather at his end of life. The impact that hospice care and support had on her entire family inspired her to do more and learn more about end of life care. In this episode of End of Life Care from a Distance, Angela explains how she found her calling as an End-of-Life...
End-of-Life Doula Nancy Weber Shares How the Coronavirus Pandemic has Impacted her Approach to End of Life Care
August 19, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBFor over 20 years Nancy Weber was an Occupational Therapist in New York City and later worked as an advocate for children with developmental disabilities. She says through her experience working with individuals and families with chronic illnesses and her own personal challenges with chronic depression, she developed an interest in end of life care. After completing UVM's End of Life Doula Professional Certificate program this past spring, she had planned to return to hospice volunteering ...
End-of-Life Doula Diane Button Develops Creative Ways to Support Clients and Families at the End of Life
June 17, 2020 21:00 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MBDiane Button started the End of Life Doula Alliance of Marin County in Northern California to combine areas of expertise in end of life care with regional doulas. Button completed UVM's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate program in March of 2019. She feels as though we all have been given a diagnosis to pause and reflect during the Coronavirus quarantine. In this episode of End of Life Care from a Distance, Button talks about the changes she has made to continue to support clients...
End-of-Life Doula Alana Osher is Finding New Ways to Communicate During COVID-19
May 20, 2020 19:00 - 12 minutes - 8.6 MBAlana Osher is an end-of-life doula and a hospice volunteer. UVM End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate program taught Osher the power of holding space and being present for whatever unfolds. That learning has proven to be incredibly helpful amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode of End of Life Care from a Distance, Osher and other end-of-life doulas are finding creative ways to support the dying and their families. End-of-Life Doulas complement the care provided by family member...
End-of-Life Doula Mary Holmes Talks About Caregiving During the COVID-19 Crisis
April 23, 2020 01:00 - 8 minutes - 5.93 MBTo not feel overwhelmed by the COVID-19 crisis, caregiver and recent graduate of UVM's End-of-Life Doulas Professional Certificate, Mary Holmes is trying to stay balanced. That means gardening and listening to music. Holmes is a supervisor for the supportive day program at the Martha’s Vineyard Center for Living. She works with clients who live with disabilities and varying levels of memory impairment. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread, Holmes has reached out to her local hospice organiz...
End-of-Life Doula Henry R. Carse Looks for Ways to Support the Dying from a Distance
April 03, 2020 20:00 - 11 minutes - 7.75 MBHenry R. Carse is a recent graduate of the University of Vermont's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate program. End-of-Life Doulas complement the care provided by family members and friends, as well as medical, palliative, and hospice professionals, within the settings of hospitals, senior care facilities, and homes. Henry is the Founder of Kids4Peace International, a non-profit interfaith dialogue and action movement that engages Palestinian and Israeli youngsters and their families...