Death Doula | Upper-class Home Care | Lancaster PA | Hospice Care
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Death Doula in PA

DYING ISN’T A MEDICAL EVENT. IT IS A HUMAN ONE

Face timing children with the help of a care givers.

Death Doulas’ Provide Aid at the End of Life

Unlike hospice workers, doulas don’t get involved in medical issues. An end-of-life caregiver or doula guides a person who is transitioning to death and their loved ones through the dying process. The doula might get involved soon after a terminal diagnosis, later on when the person declines more, at the point where the person’s body is beginning its final breakdown, or even after a death to help loved ones start their time of grieving.

 

Upper-Class Home Care doulas will provide emotional, spiritual, and physical support to everyone involved. Above all, the doula listens deeply to the concerns, fears, hopes, and life stories of the dying person and their loved ones to bring them peace at the end of life. The doula holds the space for the kind of dying experience that honors who the ill person is and has been in their life and helps them live with purpose up to the final breath. Dying isn’t a medical event. It is a human one. We have accompanied each other through the bookends of life – birth and death – since the beginning of time.

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Call us to discuss your end-of-life care needs at (717) 588-8106 or email info@upperclasshomecare.com 

HOW DOULAS SERVE:

  • Provide the opportunity to speak openly and frankly about dying

  • Explore the meaning of the dying person’s life and legacy

  • Bring a focused and intuitive presence to the bedside

  • Develop a plan for how the space looks, feels, and sounds

  • Incorporate traditions or create new rituals to mark special moments

  • Encourage appropriate ways of touching and caressing the dying person

  • Assist with physical and practical care to ease the burden on caregivers

  • Provide respite for exhausted caregivers

  • Process the emotions and experiences with loved ones

  • Support the spiritual practices of all involved

  • Guide people through the early stages of grieving

Hospice end of life doula comforting lady on her death bed.
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