Mediation between clients & family, clients & medical team, and more
Help clients die where they choose to
Advocate for all end of life decisions made by the client, ESPECIALLY when they can no longer voice what they wish
Advocate for clients family & friends, to get what they need after the client has passed
Plan, Create, & Direct; funerals, living funerals, home funerals, green burials, celebrations of life, memorials
Providing information to the client and their family. Helping them become familiar with the normal and natural stages of dying, reducing fear and anxiety.
Help clients create a will, living will, or advanced care directives
Provide information on funerals, living funerals, home funerals, green burials, celebrations of life, memorials
Explore alternative forms of therapy, and possible healing methods
Help clients make their own decisions after learning about all of their options.
Explore spiritual & religious beliefs with clients
Explore & provide alternate forms of therapy; Reiki, Meditation, Earth work & more
Plan, Create, & Direct; funerals, living funerals, home funerals, green burials, celebrations of life, memorials
Explore pre death ideas, and encourage clients to live fully until the very end
Empowers clients to make their own choices so that they feel independent, and not feel like a burden on their family, and can spend each moment with their family loving each other, and not worrying about end of life details
Scroll down to see what Elder Care Services Randi offers!
Companionship - Going over life stories and creating life review projects, recipes, writing cards & letters together, creating legacy projects, helping with independent hygiene routines
Home Maintenance - laundry, shopping, gardening, housekeeping, and handyman services, staying on top of bills and appointments, financial and healthcare management
Transportation - helping to provide access to trains, buses, rideshare apps, reduced fare taxis, and senior transportation services, or will transport myself
Home Modifications - Can assist with determining what needs to be installed, and having them put in, such as grab bars in the shower, ramps to avoid or minimize the use of stairs, or even installing a new bathroom on the ground floor
Holistic Health Care - Grounding, Reiki, Earth Therapy, Oil Therapy, Aromatherapy, assistance with taking prescribed medications, meditation, breath work & more
Physical & Emotional Comfort - Hospice workers may have many clients and not enough time to be with each client as much as needed. Hiring Randi along side hospice, ensures you or your loved ones are getting the proper support, and comfort needed round the clock.
Companionship - Going over life stories and creating life review projects, recipes, writing cards & letters together, creating legacy projects, helping with independent hygiene routines
Assisting & Supporting Family with End of Life Decisions - If those passing away can no longer make these choices, Randi will sit with the family, and clients spending as much time as needed covering all of the options available, and advocating & planning them into fruition.
Updating Family - Randi sits with your loved one, and ensures that they feel comforted, at peace, not alone, and are having as much "fun" and smiling, as possible, while reporting back to the family on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Randi generally transitions with the family from elder care support, to death doula support.
Getting Out of Hospital - Randi advocates for those wishing to die at home, and makes sure that this is an option, getting all of the medical, and holistic support brought where it needs to be, to ensure that each clients last days are spent where they want
Physical & Emotional Comfort - Hospital staff have many patients and not enough time to be with each patient as much as needed. Hiring Randi along side hospital staff, ensures you or your loved ones are getting the proper support, and comfort needed round the clock.
Companionship - Going over life stories and creating life review projects, recipes, writing cards & letters together, creating legacy projects, helping with independent hygiene routines
Assisting & Supporting Family with End of Life Decisions - If those passing away can no longer make these choices, Randi will sit with the family, and clients spending as much time as needed covering all of the options available, and advocating & planning them into fruition.
Updating Family - Randi sits with your loved one, and ensures that they feel comforted, at peace, not alone, and are having as much "fun" and smiling, as possible, while reporting back to the family on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Randi generally transitions with the family from elder care support, to death doula support.
In order to be considered "terminal" by hospice or hospitals, you must have 6 month life expectancy or less. Randi works with clients no matter the amount of life expectancy left, and believes we all deserve the best care end of life care no matter what we are going through, or how much time we have.
Various forms of cancer in advanced stages - also called stage 5 cancers, or metastatic
Dementia - Alzheimer's, Down Syndrome, Lewy Body Dementia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Frontotemporal, Huntingtons Disease, Mixed Dementia, Hydrocephalus, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Parkinsons, Vascular
Motor Neurone Diseases - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Progressive Bulbar Palsy, Pseudobulbar Palsy, Progressive Muscular Atrophy, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Kennedys Disease
Lung Disease - Asthma, pneumothorax or atelectasis, bronchitis, COPD, Lung cancer, Pneumonia, Covid 19
Neurological diseases - Acute Spinal Cord Injury, Alzheimer's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Ataxia, Bell's Palsy, Brain Tumours, Cerebral Aneurysm, Epilepsy and Seizures,
Advanced Heart Disease - Aortic Dissection, Arrhythmia, Atherosclerosis, Cardiomyopathy, Congenital heart defects, Coronary artery disease, Heart infections.
Those suffering from side effects of the Covid-19 Needle
Treatments to begin or end, including:
Ventilators
Feeding Tubes
IV Hydration
Antibiotics
CPR
Medical or Holistic Pain Management
Chemotherapy
Home Care
Hospice or Hospital Care
Last wishes
Advocating for the clients wishes which may be:
Pain & Symptom Management
Getting into, or out of Hospice & Hospitals
Voluntary stopping of eating or drinking when body starts to shut down
Declining or stopping life sustaining treatment
Palliative Sedation
Medical aid in dying
Randi Works with Terminal Clients to:
Create living funerals
legacy projects
Cards, Letters, & Gifts for loved ones left behind
Creating a will
Planning celebrations of life
Creating memorial spots, and more
Respite care offers a safe, comfortable place for your loved one while you’re away. Trained providers can sit and talk with someone who’s disabled or ill
Bathe
Dress
Working on end of life care directive, memorials, legacy projects, life review projects
Eating or Drinking
Taking medications
Exercising
Getting outdoors
Getting in and out of bed
Creating art, music, or more
There are many different Types of Respite Care Available
Respite care at home - If you care for a loved one at home, respite Randi can come to you, acting as a companion for someone who’s sick or elderly. Randi keeps them company and makes sure they don’t hurt themselves. While engaging them in every day activities, discussions, projects, and more.
Adult day centres or programs - Randi Can arrange for you to take your loved one to an adult day centre for respite care for a few hours or the whole day. Adult day centres may offer exercise, music classes, or meals supervised by trained staff. Some programs will pick up your loved ones at home and bring them back at the end of the session.
Respite care facilities - Also called short-term assisted living or residential respite care. Randi Can assist you with determining which facilities offer the best needs for your loved ones, taking the foot work out of it for you. Looking into costs, and programs, availability, and more, while advocating for your respite needs as well. This allows you to take a trip for as long as a few weeks while your loved one stays in a safe, comfortable apartment, room, or suite. Trained staff provide care day and night. Generally staff can help your loved one eat meals, take medications on schedule, dress, bathe, and exercise in classes or outdoors. They usually offer housekeeping, too. If they are unable, Randi can provide this to your loved one, within Respite care facilities
There are many illnesses and diseases that require respite care
Cancer
A brain injury
Alzheimer’s disease or dementia
A stroke
Blindness
Legacy Projects
Autobiographies
Legacy Letters
Treasure Boxes
Memorials
Obituaries
Audio & Video Recordings
Life Review Projects
Essays
Letters
Scrapbooks
Vlogs/video diaries
Interviews
Other End of Life Projects intended to be given post death
post dated birthday cards & letters
build a bear(s) with messages in the hearts
stories written for children
purchased or created with clients, post dated gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, and more
Post Death Funeral
A home funeral is what used to be called “a funeral” since all funerals took place in the family home. Nowadays it means choosing to keep a body at home after death, as opposed to having the body immediately picked up by a funeral home. It is a safe and legal choice for a family to make
Living Funeral
A living funeral gives your client the chance to be there when their family and friends are actively remembering and reminiscing about the client’s life. Sometimes also known as a pre-funeral or living wake, it moves the celebration of a person’s life from after death to before death, so the celebrated person can be there to cry, laugh, and enjoy the memorial held in their honour. Living funerals can also help families and the terminally ill come to terms with the upcoming death and recognize a good life lived. Living funerals may also be held for those who are healthy and well. They are not exclusively for the terminally ill. In this context, they can help people consider their own mortality and the kind of legacy they want to leave behind before they leave this world.
Other End of Life Services
A celebration of life is a great way to pay tribute to a loved one and celebrate their legacy. Unlike most funerals that often share similar prayers and readings; a celebration of life is unique to the individual.
While it is important to celebrate the life of the deceased, you need to remember that the event is not for them. Its main purpose is to allow the family to say goodbye, give them closure, and begin the healing process.
Randi has degrees in Grief & Trauma Counselling
Death Doula Randi
Randi offers practical and emotional support, while helping clients with post-death arrangements, especially when death was sudden or there were no pre-existing plans.
Death Doula Randi
Grief counselling is short term and focuses on working through the grief process relating to a major loss. Grief counselling is also called bereavement counselling. The term "bereavement" usually is used only when referring to the loss of a person through death.
Death Doula Randi
Randi provides a grounded presence where you can begin to explore your trauma while feeling safe, listened to and emotionally held. She is trained in how to work with trauma (trauma loss, sexual trauma, trauma bonding, and more) and will be able to offer grounding techniques, and awareness exercises in the here-and-now so that you can start to feel safe.
Randi will help you learn how to come down from hyper or hypo arousal, while staying present.
Randi will help a trauma survivor to recognize their resources and skills, and to build on these. In therapy, clients will learn how to regulate emotions and feel safer in their lives. Working with Randi will help you to understand trauma symptoms, and to start to work through your experiences.
