#caregiving — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/117250298769417299

Read the quoted toot below 👇🏻 and start to come to terms with the fact you, too, will become disabled at some point in time. If only, it will happen faster than you can ever imagine, accelerating the pace day in day out.

Oooh, and in case you're wondering, switch disabled for immigrant and apply the same. We're all bound to become disabled immigrants at some point.

It's a good time now to start learning some #empathy & #caregiving for others for when *you* may need help & support yourself.

#DeathDoula work is very similar to #caregiving for most elderly folks, except you have a good idea of when the person you're helping is going to pass away. We need more people who aren't fearful of #death to enter death doula work. There's high demands for our services & not enough supply of experienced/trained death doulas. It took several years for us to get enough birth doulas & now we have many across Vancouver Island. Most folks enjoy being a part of helping bring in new lives. However, it's easier to recruit & get more folks interested in birth doula work than death doula work because I'm in Canada & Western societies have been programmed to fear death & not see it as just another beautiful life passage. It's near impossible to find more folks willing to learn to do death doula work. Most folks aren't OK with learning how to help folks have dignified deaths because of their personal fears of death. It saddens me because we will all get old & die one day - we need more folks willing to help with end of life doula work.