Learn about a model for a non-medical home that is changing how we provide end-of-life care.
My guest Dr. Aditi Sethi is a hospice and palliative care physician and end-of-life doula. She is the founder and executive director of the Center for Conscious Living and Dying, a community supported end-of-life care home near Asheville NC. Aditi shares her journey toward working with death and dying and the creative inspiration that is bringing CCLD into existence. We discuss why the care home model may be the solution to many problems currently facing hospice and end-of-life care. Learn more at the website:
This episode includes:
- How intuition guided Aditi’s journey to becoming a hospice and palliative care physician and an EOL doula
- What Aditi learned from her travels in India during childhood
- What needs to change in the medical system to improve how people die
- How conscious living and conscious dying are intertwined
- Practices to become more awake and aware in life and in dying
- What is the Center for Conscious Living and Dying
- The benefits of community-supported end-of-life homes
- How creativity can help us devise solve the problems we face around end-of-life care
- Resources available from the Omega Home Network to help people start EOL care homes
- How working with Ethan Sisser at his end of life inspired Aditi’s next steps to leap into the unknown
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- Aditi’s music website
- Omega Home Network
- Ethan Sisser Facebook page
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