Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
My guest for this episode are Jane Whitlock and Liza Neal who both work with the Full Circle Care Program in a skilled nursing facility to support residents and their loved ones during end-of-life journeys. Jane is an end-of-life doula who also helped found the Minnesota Death Collaborative and co-founded Full Circle Care. Liza is a chaplain who has worked to develop spiritual community within and outside faith and multi-faith contexts. She joined the skilled nursing facility in order to be part of the Full Circle Care Program, which we discuss in this interview.
This episode includes:
-How the Full Circle Care Program came about
-The goals for the program and what it consists of
-The roles of doulas and chaplains and how they work together
-How they support and educate patients, families and staff around grief and end-of-life choices
-The community that develops within a residential facility and approaching the experience of grief for everyone in the facility
-The importance of teaching families and staff how to say goodbye to a dying person
-How this program helps fills the gaps left by today's "modern" hospice care
-Obstacles that have occurred in creating this program
-Tips for other skilled nursing facilities that might want to start a similar program
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My guest for this episode are Jane Whitlock and Liza Neal who both work with the Full Circle Care Program in a skilled nursing facility to support residents and their loved ones during end-of-life journeys. Jane is an end-of-life doula who also helped found the Minnesota Death Collaborative and co-founded Full Circle Care. Liza is a chaplain who has worked to develop spiritual community within and outside faith and multi-faith contexts. She joined the skilled nursing facility in order to be part of the Full Circle Care Program, which we discuss in this interview.
This episode includes:
-How the Full Circle Care Program came about
-The goals for the program and what it consists of
-The roles of doulas and chaplains and how they work together
-How they support and educate patients, families and staff around grief and end-of-life choices
-The community that develops within a residential facility and approaching the experience of grief for everyone in the facility
-The importance of teaching families and staff how to say goodbye to a dying person
-How this program helps fills the gaps left by today's "modern" hospice care
-Obstacles that have occurred in creating this program
-Tips for other skilled nursing facilities that might want to start a similar program
🍃 Subscribe to my email list: eepurl.com/ExfLL
🍂 Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop: bookshop.org/lists/books-by-karen-wyatt-md and Indiebound:
7 Lessons for Living from the Dying : indiebound.org/book/9781786783110
The Journey from Ego to Soul: indiebound.org/book/9780982685563
🍃 Subscribe to this podcast on
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/end-of-life-university/id1033282990
Google: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZXNzb25zZnJvbWR5aW5nLndvcmRwcmVzcy5jb20vZmVlZC8
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bdr4odBlaaDy8NoJhcFsL
iHeart Radio: iheart.com/podcast/256-end-of-life-university-31099550
Stitcher Radio: stitcher.com/show/endoflife-university
🍂 Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past: eolupodcast.com/series
🍃 Join the team at my Patreon page patreon.com/eolu and get access to the EOLU mug: “Mind if we talk about death?” (only Patrons can purchase it). PLUS get our new bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!
🍂 Intro Music Credit:
"Bright Wish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
