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Quality of Life Care, LLC
Quality of Life Care, LLC has been helping people and businesses since 2005. It was created by Deanna Cochran, RN, BA to provide information, resources and support to people dealing with serious illness so that they may find the highest in quality of life on a daily basis.
Mission: The mission of QLC is to provide education, support and resources to individuals, families and organizations on issues related to life limiting illness from diagnosis through after death
Vision: QLC envisions a world where every person on the planet has access to high quality palliative care to support a high quality of life anytime during an illness, especially during the time of irreversible, declining health. QLC also envisions a world where people know what to do during the imminent dying period.
Values: The sharing of information to enhance quality of life is what guides every action within QLC.
Focus: QLC focuses on the time period between “when-cure-driven-treatments-begin-to-stop-working” and bereavement.
QLC has created various initiatives over the years that has promoted palliative care, patient empowerment, consumer training, end of life training and consumer advocacy.
Presently, QLC’s focus is creating and improving palliative care programs as well as end of life doula programs within communities, organizations, home healths, hospices and hospitals … anywhere people are being served during the time period of advanced illness. Also, Deanna is very involved with mentoring end of life doulas and companions to accompany the dying through QLC’s Certification Program, Accompanying the Dying~a Practical Guide & Awareness Training (www.accompanyingthedying.com).
Please email us if you have any questions about how palliative care principles can add tremendous value to your business.
"The Calling," You Have It or You Don't
Anyone can receive end of life training to know more about the time period, what to do, how to be helpful and to feel more comfortable assisting others. But not everyone who seeks this out has the 'calling.' The calling…
"When Do I Refer to Hospice (as a Death Doula)?
End of Life Doulas are not the only ones who ask this very important question: "when do I refer someone I know and care about to hospice services?" "when is it appropriate?"This is a huge topic in hospice and other…
Nurse With the Purple Hair~A New Film by Sean Cunningham
This interview with Sean Cunningham is so wonderful as you can hear the awe in his voice for the work of hospice. He shares how he came across the 'nurse with the purple hair,' and how he came to create…
Birth, Breath and Death with Amy Glenn
When I had my second child at home in 1991, it was with a lay birth midwife. It was shocking for most at the time because my first child was delivered by C-Section. Back then, birth doulas were very rare,…
Experience At the Bedside DOES Matter
As an end of life practitioner, having experience underneath you really does matter. We all must start somewhere yes. Get a group of hospice professionals together as we share stories of our beginning days and you will hear the funniest…
Why End of Life Doulas MUST Know About Palliative Care
Palliative Care? You mean the care that hospice gives when you are dying? NO! Do you mean the care you receive when there is nothing else 'they' can do? NO! Oh, so you mean the care you get when you…
The Sacred Life Journey of Sharon Lund
Last night sitting outside beside the powerful Maui ocean, Sharon and I talked about her own life and death journey.She has been serving others at the end of life since 1986 in a variety of ways, as she weaves in…