Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About End-of-Life Doulas

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Collins, E. F., Galloway-Salazar, Q., Johnson, E., Blechman, J., Rush, M., Clare, E., Johnson, A., Sethi, A., Rosa, W. E. and Izumi, S. 2024. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About End-of-Life Doulas. Journal of Palliative Medicine . https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2024.0261
AuthorsCollins, E. F., Galloway-Salazar, Q., Johnson, E., Blechman, J., Rush, M., Clare, E., Johnson, A., Sethi, A., Rosa, W. E. and Izumi, S.
Abstract

Palliative care has made great strides in improving the lives of people living with serious illness, with an empirical premise for increasing quality, and sometimes quantity of life. Yet in some cases, there exist gaps that impede the ability of palliative care clinicians to truly advocate, procure, and provide the comprehensive services needed for patients, family caregivers, and communities, particularly in the contexts of caring for marginalized populations and working in under-resourced practice settings. The end-of-life doula role has emerged over the last decade and the availability of trained doulas in the community has burgeoned. An end-of-life doula is a nonmedical, holistic support person who provides education, guidance, emotional, spiritual, and practical support to persons and families navigating serious and terminal illness, ideally early in the disease process, throughout the time surrounding death, and during bereavement. A pervasive Western culture of avoiding the subject of death means that we, as a society, often do not know or remember how to navigate the journey of end of life in a way that is caring, compassionate, skilled, holistic, and centered on the needs and worldview of the dying one. The ten tips provided here can guide palliative care clinicians to leverage collaboration with trusted, community-based end-of-life doulas to ensure comprehensive and people-centered palliative care.

KeywordsPalliative care ; people-centered ; marginalised populations
Year2024
JournalJournal of Palliative Medicine
PublisherMary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
ISSN1557-7740
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2024.0261
Web address (URL)https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jpm.2024.0261
Output statusPublished
Publication dates
Online29 Jul 2024
Publication process dates
Deposited16 Aug 2024
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