Hospice News March 4, 2025
Partners In Care has christened a new death doula program in partnership with The Peaceful Presence Project.
A death doula is a non-medical provider trained to care for a terminally ill person and their family physically, emotionally and spiritually during the process of death. They facilitate conversations regarding the dying process, discuss advance care planning, hospice election and advocate the patient’s wishes around ceremony, memorialization and disposition, among others.
The Partners in Care program will be housed within the organization’s volunteer department.
“This partnership and the doula training allows us to connect more deeply with those volunteers who also want to connect more deeply with their patients and the families. There’s a profound impact, a profound relationship that happens in...