Death doulas as supportive companions in end-of-life care: A scoping review

SQ Yoong, HS Goh, H Zhang - Palliative Medicine, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Death doulas have gained greater attention recently by offering psychosocial,
spiritual and other non-clinical support for patients with time-limiting diseases, including their …

Describing the end-of-life doula role and practices of care: perspectives from four countries

M Krawczyk, M Rush - Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: End-of-life doulas are emerging as a potentially important new form of
community-based caregiving in the global North, yet we know little about this form of care …

Death positivity in America: The movement—its history and literature

ADV Incorvaia - OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Western society is in an era of death awareness, its most recent salience: A Positive Death
Movement. This article traces the evolution of American death culture by describing key …

An international survey of Death Doula training organizations: the views of those driving Death Doula training and role enactment

D Rawlings, L Miller-Lewis, J Tieman… - Palliative Care and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Context: Death Doulas are working globally to provide non-medical end-of-life care. They
have different training experiences and views on the role and whether it should be …

Gender and legitimacy in personal service occupations: the case of End-of-Life Doulas and Death Midwives

AA Francis - Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The emerging occupations of end-of-life doula and death midwife are part of a growing
sector of personal service jobs. Designed to support, educate, and empower dying people …

Experiences of engaging a death doula: qualitative interviews with bereaved family members

D Rawlings, K Van Dinther… - Palliative Care and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: There has been an emerging trend of adopting a death doula, a non-medical
advocate and guide for people at the end of life and their families. While there has been …

[HTML][HTML] Doulas da morte: uma revisao de escopo

G Agra, KJ Gomes Rafael, MH de Lima Monteiro… - Revista …, 2023 - scielo.org.co
Introdujo: O profissional doula da morte é considerado um colaborador solidário, cujo
objetivo é melhorar a qualidade de morte no processo de terminalidade de pacientes, de …

Death doula working practices and models of care: the views of death doula training organisations

D Rawlings, L Miller-Lewis, J Tieman… - BMC Palliative Care, 2023 - Springer
Background The role of death doula has emerged in recent years, arguably as a result of
overwhelming demands on carers, healthcare professionals and service providers in end-of …

Inside American End-of-Life Doula Trainings through Analytic Autoethnography: A Social Movement for Death Positivity Manifests in a New Profession

ADV Incorvaia - Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
End-of-life doulas (EOLDs) represent a rising profession and are becoming increasingly well-
known through pop culture, yet associated scholarship is scant. Through a “sociology of …

End-of-life doulas and people living with intellectual and developmental disability

C Ellison - End of Life and People with Intellectual and …, 2022 - Springer
Globally, there is a growing movement of extending the role of doulas from assisting with
bringing in life to providing non-medical physical, emotional and spiritual support to people …