Personalized Care to Meet Your Needs for MAiD Support
Verification of Qualification for MAiD:
✓ Expert Attending physician consultation, including an in-person visit, comprehensive review of medical records; assessment of your needs; resources, goals and wishes; guidance and support for your family members; relevant recommendations for treatment and care options; evaluation for qualification for support through MAiD.
✓ This consultation constitutes the initial request for MAID, as required by law.
Completion of Legal MAiD Process:
Verification of Qualification for MAiD plus:
✓ An in-person or telehealth visit with the Attending Physician (MD), constituting the second request for MAID, as required by law;
✓ Physician counsel for family members, and clarity regarding the path forward;
✓ 24/7 availability from our team of experts to answer questions and address concerns related to the process;
✓ Assistance with completing the required legal documents;
✓ Upon qualification and completion of documents, submission of the MAiD prescription to a pharmacy and coordinate with the pharmacist for delivery to the patient.
*Payment to Pharmacy is separate from Empowered Endings services. Patients may apply to the Empowered Endings Foundation for Financial Assistance with MAiD process or medication.
Wrap-Around MAiD Support:
✓ Wrap-around support accessible at any stage of the MAiD process;
✓ Routine wrap-around mental, emotional, spiritual and social support for patients and their loved ones, including access to counselors and doulas who are accessible 24/7 to provide intimate guidance aligned with the patients’ and families’ goals, wishes and values;
✓ Access to ongoing individual or group Grief and Bereavement support and referrals for additional needs, such as final arrangements and estate management.
*Routine physician, nursing and counselor, and doula visits are scheduled and priced on the basis of each patient and family’s level of need.
MAiD Medication Ingestion Support
Once a patient has completed the MAiD process and received the medication, we highly recommend engaging support before, during and after ingestion of the medication. We can’t emphasize enough how critical, and often underestimated, this layer of support can be.
Our considerable experience demonstrates the importance of having professionals by your side at this delicate, and potentially stressful, time to:
✓ Foster comfort and security for patients and families who can trust everything is being handled appropriately throughout the process;
✓ Allow loved ones to be present as loving, supportive and grieving family members rather than having to manage everything;
✓ Ease anxieties and smooth any potential complications to reduce potential stress and trauma;
✓ Facilitate meaningful rituals at this sacred time as requested;
✓ Ensure clarity regarding time of death and post-death logistics and legalities;
✓ Dramatically optimize bereavement outcomes, including access to ongoing grief support.
In particular, when deep relationships with our Empowered Endings doctors and doulas have been established, having the same providers’ support at the time of ingestion has a profoundly positive impact in the moment and in the grieving and healing process going forward.
For more information about Ingestion Support, please contact our office.
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Options for an Empowered End of Life Experience
It’s important for you to know that not only are there options, but there are healthcare professionals and holistic practitioners who are willing and able to explore the options with you and your loved ones, prior to and during the last phases of your journey. At Empowered Endings, we believe that everyone should understand their care options, so each person is empowered to make the best decisions about their final days, weeks, or months of life. Whichever path one chooses to take, being at home with proper support is often the best, and preferred, option when feasible.
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.
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