
Episode #11
Death Doulas Are Where Birth Doulas Were a Decade Ago
<p>When Allison Grant isn’t scaling startups, she’s thinking about death. As a trained death doula, she serves as a non-medical guide for the dying and their families through the end of life journey. Death doulas are roughly where birth doulas were a decade ago, before insurance covered them and hospitals offered them as standard of care. 85% of Medicare spending happens in the last six months of life, much of it on interventions the data says make quality of life worse. The conversation that could shift some of that is the one doctors aren't trained to have, but peop...

