“End-of-life care” is a difficult aspect of aging. Aging is often associated with severe and burdensome ailments. The impairing aspect of severe illness, combined with the dread of pain, suffering, and loss of independence near the end of life, raises questions of quality vs. quantity of life that impact the patient and the entire family. To steer this discussion forward, Amazing Care Network hosted an insightful webinar featuring Cora Tellez in conversation with Dr. Bob and Elizabeth Uslander, founders of Empowered EndingsTM.
The webinar focused on the Death with Dignity initiative, with Bob sharing his own experience with the losses of patients, friends, and family members, addressing our flawed healthcare system. The webinar aims to improve End-of-Life Care for everyone by equipping patients, families, healthcare practitioners, and institutions with the knowledge they need to alleviate the anxiety and sorrow that comes with the process, seamlessly steering everything.
Dr. Bob and Elizabeth Uslander Biography
Dr. Bob and Elizabeth Uslander
Dr. Bob and Elizabeth Uslander founded Empowered Endings™ to share the wisdom of their experience empowering End of Life journeys. They share a passion for honoring dignity and choice in life and death, which serves as the foundation for all their work.
Elizabeth’s expertise in the fields of grief, end of life, family and spirituality is shaped by decades of education and experience in ministry and social work, combined with her personal journey of healing. She founded her counseling practice, Voyages, to provide transformational support not traditionally available in the medical model.
Dr. Bob’s expertise culminates from 30 years as an emergency medicine, palliative care, and hospice physician. His personal journey with loss of patients, friends and family informs and inspires his commitment to filling the gaps in our broken healthcare system that cause profound struggle and suffering.
In 2016, Dr. Bob founded Integrated MD Care, an innovative medical practice designed to fill those gaps. Elizabeth joined the practice the following year, at which point they co-created their “Medicine for the Body and the Soul” model of End of Life Care. Together, they have guided and cared for hundreds of patients and families in their Empowered End of Life Experiences™.
Dr. Bob and Elizabeth’s partnership has since blossomed into a marriage of their hearts and minds, culminating in the creation of Empowered Endings™. The mission of Empowered Endings™ is to improve End of Life Care for all, by empowering patients, families, healthcare providers and institutions to soothe the fear and suffering that too often afflicts the dying and grieving process.
