No Food For Thought -The VSED Option

10/28/19 • 46 min

Ask a Death Doula

(VSED) Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking

In this episode of Ask a Death Doula we will be talking about VSED

-What it is?

-How It Works

-What is the Role of the Death Doula working with the VSED Patient

Resource links mentioned in this episode:

www.doulagivers.com

Compassion and Choices Compassion and Choices

No Food For Thought -The VSED Option

(VSED) Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking

In this episode of Ask a Death Doula we will be talking about VSED

-What it is?

-How It Works

-What is the Role of the Death Doula working with the VSED Patient

Resource links mentioned in this episode:

www.doulagivers.com

Compassion and Choices Compassion and Choices

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Suzanne B. O’Brien RN Talks “How to Solve the Elder Care Crisis”

Suzanne B. O’Brien RN has worked in End of Life Care for over a decade as an Oncolgy and Hospice RN. Suzanne has been advocating and building training programs to help support the enormous amount of elderly and their families. After working with over 1000 patients at the end of life, Suzanne shares a practical solution to the current Elder Care Crisis. Her solution not only solves the answer to the shortage in medical staffing for this populations but provides an answer that will bring back holistic patient centered care.

In This Podcast, I will cover "How to Solve the Elder Care Crisis" In this podcast you will learn:

How we are presently in the midst of an Elder Care Crisis
How for the first time ever in history, we have the longest living elder population
How this aging population is set to increase in numbers for decades to come.
How our main stream medical system is struggling to meet the demands of the aging population.
Why looking for answers within the medical system is not the answer
How planning ahead can make your overall end of life better by 80%-90% no matter what the disease process.
How specially trained non-medical professionals can “fill the gaps” in our mainstream medical system and bring back patient centered, holistic care.
How to taking part in advocating for your own healthcare decisions and choices is a big part of the solution.
Links mentioned in this Podcast:

FREE Monthly Doulagivers End of Life Doula Level 1 Trainings: www.doulagivers.com

A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

by Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger

https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-End-Practical-Advice/dp/1501157167

“World Training Day” 2012 www.worldtrainingday.org

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Ask a Death Doula Podcast LIVE from Reimagine Festival San Francisco California

Reimagine As a nonprofit organization aiming to break down taboos and transform our experiences around death, dying, and living. I Joined Michael Hebb and a remarkable panel of his friends consider the questions that keep us up at night. Ticket holders were able to submit questions to the panel prior to the event. Michael was joined by Dr. Joon Yun, Dr. Dawn Gross, Brad Wolfe, Alua Arthur, Sandy Gibson. Here is my podcast LIVE from SF covering the Death FAQ event!

In this Live Podcast, I will cover "The Death FAQ Event at Reimagine San Francisco"