Legal Documentation:

• Advance care planning

• Enduring guardians & 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 up meal trains, weekly timetable & community crowd funding.

• Accompanying and transporting clients to medical or wellbeing appointments

After-Death

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

• Arranging cuddle cot (if baby), cold plate or techni ice to person at home or co-ordinating with Solace End Of Life Services or a chosen funeral home to keep body with them until ceremony, burial or cremation

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

• Deep listening and meaningful conversation

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

• Normalising emotions & helping reduce fear of dying

• Guiding meditations

• 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

• Support in writing memorial speeches that truly reflect the person’s life. (Optional editing or refining 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