Legal Documentation:

• Advance care planning

• Enduring guardians

• Enduring power of attorneys

• Wills

Basic comfort care

• Hydration, repositioning, creating a peaceful environment

• Preparing the space for death: soft lighting, gentle music, familiar and meaningful items

• Sitting vigil in the final days and hours. Peaceful, grounded presence.

Co-ordination

• Co-ordinating & communicating with family and caregivers. Supporting shift rotation, assigning of tasks, people’s wishes.

• Setting meal trains, weekly timetables, community crowd funding.

• Accompanying and transporting clients to medical or wellbeing appointments

Writing & Legacy Support

• Writing and shaping funeral and memorial speeches that truly reflect the person’s life

  • Editing or refining speeches while preserving the speaker’s authentic voice

  • Creating written pieces that can be read aloud or kept as lasting keepsakes

  • Working one-on-one with individuals to document their life story as a book

• Recording online tapes & recorded messages to leave behind for loved ones  

• Helping people say what needs to be said (or sit in what cannot be said)

• Offering a steady, non-judgemental presence and anchor 

After-Death

• Gentle body care: washing or dressing of body (independent or supporting loved ones to do themselves)

• Arranging cold plate to person at home or co-ordinating with Solace End Of Life Services to keep body with them until ceremony, burial or cremation

• Creating an appropriate space for goodbye

• Facilitation of ceremony. Discussing the many options eg traditional, at home, alternative, public or private.

• Support with burial options or cremation. Paper work etc.

• Check-in with family and loved ones weeks or months later.

• Deep listening and meaningful conversation

• Supporting client to say what feels unfinished (apologies, gratitude, truths)

• Normalising emotions & helping reduce fear of dying

• Guided meditations & breath awareness

• Honouring the person’s beliefs, values, and sense of meaning (religious or not)

• Supporting connection to something greater eg nature, ancestry, love, mystery

• Transition Mentoring

• Check ins with family and caregivers after death