Supporting Your Families Through What Daily Care Can't Cover
A partnership for home care agencies who want their clients more fully held through every phase of aging and end-of-life.
Most families navigating aging and serious illness are carrying more than their daily care team can hold. The hard conversations go unspoken. Plans don't get made. People don't get to say what they mean before it's too late.
I'm the person who makes space for all of that, early, unhurried, and without flinching from where all life ultimately heads.
I provide end-of-life guidance and companionship alongside home care teams, offering something daily care isn't structured to hold. I ideally come in early, when a client is adjusting to this new chapter of life and there's still time for the conversations that matter. But I show up whenever a family needs me, including the last hours of a life. I'm not afraid to go there when a family is ready. And I stay through whatever comes.
Your team is fully occupied doing what they do best. What I bring is unhurried, specialized time particularly around death, which most people in a client's life are carefully stepping around. I work alongside your team, not in place of it, so your clients feel more fully held through every phase.What I Offer Your Families
❋ Honest Presence & Companionship
Unhurried time for the conversations that matter: what's hard, what's changing, what's uncertain. I'm not afraid to go where most people in a client's life are avoiding.
❋ Life Review and Legacy Work
Helping clients reflect on what their life has meant, tell the stories that matter, and leave something behind — letters, recordings, memory books — for the people they love.
❋ Planning Ahead
Advance care planning, POLST and directive education, and conversations about funeral wishes and body disposition, before crisis forces decisions. I am one of a small number of practitioners in the Portland area with deep knowledge of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. When a client raises a question around medical aid in dying (MAID), I can help them and their family navigate it with clarity and without pressure.
❋ Caregiver Support
Regular presence for the spouse or adult child who is running on empty. Space to name what they're carrying, normalize anticipatory grief, and actually accept help.
❋ Vigil & End-of-Life Support
Coaching families on how to be present in the final days, explaining what the body does as it approaches death, and staying so no one has to do it alone.
You Might Recognize These Moments
“The doctor gave us a lot of options and we don't really know what questions to ask."
"I feel terrible saying this, but sometimes I just want it to be over."
"She always said she didn't want to be kept alive by machines, but we never wrote anything down."
"Promise me you won't let them put me back in the hospital."
"He said he's not afraid of dying, just of losing control of how."
"We don't know if we're doing this right."
Why it Matters for Your Organization
Partnering with an end-of-life guide means your clients receive more complete support during one of the hardest chapters of their lives. Your care team has somewhere to turn when a family situation goes beyond what a visit can hold. And your organization becomes known for something most home care agencies don't fully offer: genuine presence through the whole arc of aging and dying, not just the daily logistics of it.
How We Work Together
You notice a family situation that calls for more than daily care can hold — and you reach out or make an introduction.
The family connects with me directly for a complimentary 30-minute call to explore whether it's the right fit.
From there, the family sets the pace. I work alongside your team throughout, providing continuity through every phase.
