In this podcast episode, Alison Kepple is the guest speaker who shares insights into the differences between palliative care and hospice care.
Alison is a Palliative Care Social Worker, End-of-Life Doula, and Psychopomp based in central New Jersey.
She fulfills her sacred duties by providing support to hospitalized individuals and their families through serious illness and injury, normalizing the dying process, and offering end-of-life education to interdisciplinary staff.
In addition to her professional roles, Alison is a wife, mother, and cat owner.
She highlights the role of death doulas as volunteers working with the palliative care team in a hospital setting.
She discusses how palliative care encompasses physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs, and involves a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, including physicians, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers.
Listeners interested in incorporating the support of death doulas within a hospital setting will find this episode valuable, she shares tips on establishing a death doula volunteer program.
Alison also discusses her personal experience with loss with the death of her father at a young age and how it impacted her and her family.
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