Our Approach
Connection, Care and Listening
At Empowered Endings, we don’t believe there’s one way to approach aging and the supportive care that everyone deserves to honor their goals, wishes, and values.
Our Medical Group offers a comprehensive and customizable suite of services to serve our clients’ physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual wellbeing. We emphasize robust planning, family support, and professional collaboration as crucial elements in shaping a fulfilling life.
Our approach prioritizes connection, care, and listening. By partnering with our patients, we learn what’s important to them and the people they love so we can co-create a flexible plan that centers around our clients’ needs. Our goal is to ensure each person feels heard, held, and whole throughout their journey.
Providing an Ecosystem of Empowerment
Empowered Endings was established to ensure an Empowered End of Life Experience™ is the rule, not the exception.
As healthcare professionals, educators, and advocates, we approach Aging, Palliative, and End of Life Care from every angle–ensuring dignity and agency for patients, families, and the providers who support them. Our model of care–now proven after seven (7) years of success supporting hundreds of patients and families throughout Southern California and beyond–is the foundation of our education, resources, community and charitable work.
Medical Care & Counseling
Our healthcare professionals and holistic providers offer personalized support to patients and families navigating end of life journeys, from Aging Well, Palliative and Hospice Care, to End of Life Options and Grief Support.
Community, Resources & Education
We believe in the power of community and access to information, which is why we’re proud to offer providers, care partners and community members education and resources to support Empowered End of Life Experiences.
Philanthropy & Free Services
Everyone deserves to author the final chapters of life. Our foundation raises money to provide free services and financial support, ensuring access to optimal Care and Options for all.
Healthcare Referrals & Resources
We support healthcare professionals looking for resources and support for their patients, professional education, and opportunities to expand the reach of new models of in-home Aging, Palliative, and End of Life Care.
Seven Pillars of Care
Through decades of experience supporting patients, families and collaborating providers in navigating complex and terminal illness, Dr. Bob and Elizabeth Uslander have identified the missing links to ensuring an Empowered End of Life Experience for all. The Empowered Endings Model of Care is designed to fill the major gaps in the traditional healthcare system with these these seven (7) pillars of care.
The Empowered Endings 7 Pillars of Care
1) Personal doctor-patient relationships: an engaged physician offering intensive, personalized, trauma-preventative, culturally-competent care and counsel;
2) Guidance and companionship with doulas: emotional, spiritual, and grief support from end of life, grief and dementia doulas throughout the final chapters and beyond;
3) Personalized 24/7 support for families: a team of experts answering the pressing questions that families have as they navigating the journey alongside their loved ones;
4) Collaboration with care partners: communication with healthcare professionals, care planners and managers, holistic practitioners, and doulas to ensure comprehensive care;
5) Enhancing quality-of-life with therapies: access to traditional, alternative and holistic therapies variably available in the insurance-based model;
6) Specialized end-of-life option support: unique expertise educating, advocating and providing care for legal end of life options, including Medical Aid in Dying and Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking;
7) Robust, proactive end-of-life planning: ensuring that those who wish to design a gentle and dignified death have the information, resources, and support to do so.
Empowered Endings is here to reimagine the way we think about and navigate the final chapters. Those experiencing the transitions that come with aging, complex care, and end of life, the people who love them, and the providers who serve them deserve to be fully supported–physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and socially–throughout.
Replicate the Model
Join us in revolutionizing End of Life Care. We invite doctors and doulas across the nation to partner with Empowered Endings to create a practice in your community that offers the dignity and agency we all deserve in our final chapter. Our licensing and training focuses on helping our healthcare partners ensure individualized care and unwavering support throughout the end-of-life journeys they support, including Natural Death and End of Life Options.
The Empowered Endings Model is a proven model of End of Life Care committed to empowering patients in their complex and terminal illness journeys while ensuring support for their loved ones through personalized, whole-person, trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive care. This vital support allows patients and families to navigate these delicate and dynamic times with unparalleled grace, dignity, and comfort.
Together we can redefine compassionate care at life’s most crucial moments. Contact us to explore partnership opportunities and embark on your journey in transforming End of Life Care.
Bob and Elizabeth are just very gentle souls. There was no pressure and shared with my wife Rachel and I the many options you have to consider. It felt just like someone putting their arms around you.
For us as a family, Bob and Elizabeth gave us the tranquility and support that we needed at that moment. It made a total difference in the way my Dad passed away. It allowed me to be the daughter and not a nurse.
Featured Articles
Psychology Today: 5 Ways Completing an Advance Directive is a Gift to You & Your Family
In this recent article for his Psychology Today Series, Permission to Choose, Dr. Bob Uslander, Co-Founder of Empowered Endings, explains how completing an advance directive is a gift to both…
Psychology Today: How The Doctor + Doula Partnership Transforms End of Life Care
In this recent article for his Psychology Today Series, Permission to Choose, Dr. Bob Uslander, Co-Founder of Empowered Endings, explores the revolutionary collaboration between doctors and death doulas in End…