Role of the End-of-Life Doula in a Skilled Nursing Facility (Webinar)
With Jane Whitlock, hosted by Patty Brennan
Jane Whitlock has spent four years working as an end-of-life doula as part of a larger care team for long-term care residents. She has seen how doulas can fill gaping holes and learned how to “stay in her lane” while still finding a way to be effective support for residents and their loved ones. Learn how Jane forged her heart-centered path of service to families into gainful employment.
Jane Whitlock became an end-of-life doula in 2015 and launched her business Death Doula Jane in 2016. She performed a TedTalk titled What I Learned about Life from Death. Jane also became a certified nursing assistant (CNA) to add to her skill set. She is the co-founder of the Minnesota Death Collaborative and Full Circle Care, an EOL doula program at Providence Place SNF in Minneapolis. She is currently on the board for End In Mind, a nonprofit that encourages people to have the tough end-of-life discussions.
Our speaker experienced some issues with her internet connectivity and turned her camera off for a few minutes at one point in the presentation. This problem did not continue for the entire presentation, so hang in there with the few glitches. It’s worth it!
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I really enjoyed listening to Jane Whitlock and the back and forth questions. Thank you. I am a dementia care specialist and EOL Doula, I worked as a professional care aide for 30 years and am now self employed with my own company as I continue my passion for our frail elderly. I live in Vernon, BC, Canada. My experience during my career, college trained in palliative care, has been for the most part negative when it comes to end of life. I worked in a government run long term care home and they preferred that care aides do their job, respect the nurses and keep quiet. We were given little to no respect. The problem is I have a voice and wanted to be able to use it so I became active with my union, OH&S, was an active member of the workload committee and resident quality care committee.
I am now, since 2017, a private caregiver and EOL Doula in community and facility. I am strictly private pay as the government LTC facilities and most of the private care homes are not interested in what I can offer as a doula. I am happy with what i offer my community.
I was very interested in something that Jane very briefly touched on and is death/dying and our homeless community. Because of our experience with addiction and homelessness in our family, I have connected with our local Upper Room Mission and shelter and would like to speak to the director about how we can serve this lost population.
Thanks for sharing Celia!
Hi Patty, the video doesn’t seem to work anymore. Where can I find it? 😕 Thanks in advance.