Kairos Supportive, Palliative & End-of-Life Concierge Doula Services

08/06/2024

So grateful for the wonderful people who have donated to KAIROS so that we can improve the lives of people affected by life-altering/life-limiting illness. Last month, we were able to lend out/fonate a transfer wheelchair, a walking rollator, 4 cases of Liquid Hope tube-feeding formula, incontinent supplies, dressing supplies and therapy equipment. All of these items were donated to us and in turn,we have been able to find these items new homes. A big thank you to all who donated! 💚

07/07/2024

Donate! Your generous donation will go toward enhancing the end-of-life journey of one of our clients through a variety of means, such as: assistance with supplies, equipment, education, home modification, caregiving, advocacy, or life-enhancing goods, programs, and services.

07/22/2023

We are a Supportive, Palliative, End-of-Life Doula Service that currently services New Castle County Delaware.

“Doula” is Greek for “servant,” and the goal of being a Doula is to be a wise servant-guide with people as they walk the path of their life-limiting condition so they can finish their work and they know that they’re not alone.

KAIROS Supportive, Palliative and End-of-Life Concierge Doula Services
Our Guiding Principles—SERVE: We walk alongside persons who have serious illness to provide: Support•Education•Resources•
Veracity (Truthtelling) •Empowerment

We offer many services:
•Caregiving/Personal Care
•Respite Care
•Healthcare Management
•Care Coordination
•Medication Management
•Transportation to Appointments
•Companionship
•End-of-life Care Planning
•Legacy Work
•Bereavement/Grief Counseling
•Spiritual Care
•Household Management
•Property Management
•Home Maintenance
•Navigating Healthcare Appointments and Concerns
•Wound care
•Pet care
•Home clean outs/Home organization
•Education for caregivers
•Education for patients and their care-tenders
•Advocacy
•In-home massage therapy referrals
•In-home facial referrals.
•And more…

Text or call to see how we can serve you!

04/02/2023

Looking for help with your loved one with dementia, ALS, cancer, heart failure or another life-limiting illness? We are here to help! Give us a call or text at (302) 379-2793

01/31/2023

I’m not just the executive director…I’m an end-user of EOL care, too. Here’s part of my story:

A few years back—about a month after my youngest brother’s tragic death from ALS—I was laying in my bed in the morning and I had a grief attack. It surprised me, because it came seemingly out of nowhere. Yet despite the lack of any obvious trigger, it was as strong and real and new and fresh as Day One.

I allowed myself a good, deep languorous cry and afterwards...as I was laying there in my bed staring blankly, something red caught my attention. I turned to look out of the window and was amazed at what I saw.

The ‘volunteer’ Japanese maple in the corner of the yard was ablaze in fiery garnet glory and was dancing joyfully with the wind. Thirteen years prior, she had been but a sprig… a mere twig that had commandeered a spot on the outside of our back fence and next to our vegetable garden. We had debated whether we should rip her out or let her live. We let her live.

For years she was a tiny, spindly, and insignificant interloper with no real beauty. And she hid inauspiciously behind the Old Gum tree who stalwartly stands his ground inside the fence and commandeers all the attention in Autumn with his golden glory. But now, no longer unassuming, she has herself become grand in her crimson glory. Clothed in her last best dressing-gown, she defiantly stands tall and unabashedly raises her fiery arms above the height of the fence to the heavens to greet the sun (and to throw some shade while she’s at it!) And the dappled shadows she creates on the lawn while doing so are splendid. The girl has moxie.

She peeks from behind the Old Gum, her branches gleefully dancing in the wind. Teasing me, she boisterously bounces and raises her arms and claps her hands in joyful adulation and beckons me to join in the dance. She sways in rhythms to the cadence of the wind and tickles the soft blue autumn sky with her lacey fingers.

I’m glad we let her live, because that day I needed her there with me. I needed her vicarious moxie and her vivacious adulation. Today, too, I need her standing tall, glowing cheerful and bright, reminding me that life is beautiful and boisterous... mysterious and serendipitous, dappled with dark and light, filled with precious sorrow and joy. And I need her all year round—from season to season—to remind me that the tenuous things that we nurture in one season can present themselves to us in another season in order that they might nurture us.

And she is an accident. And she is all joy. And her joie de vivre cajoles me to re-enter the world that mysteriously holds life and death...sunshine and shadows...accidents and joy. And, watching her dance in the wind, I am again at peace.

Copyright Tracy B. Dickerson, November 2021 ©️

01/02/2023