Support that adapts as
life changes
Support for families and caregivers facing memory loss and cognitive decline. We provide practical strategies, emotional guidance, and coordination tools tailored to your loved one’s stage of dementia.
Reduce stress. Improve quality of life. Know what’s next.
From long-term care planning to coordinating medical needs, we help older adults and their families understand their options and make confident decisions.
Whether aging in place or exploring care options, we’re in your corner.
Get clear, compassionate support when facing a terminal illness. We help you make informed choices, honor your values, and find peace during the final chapter of life.
Create space for meaning, closure, and the goodbye you want.
Support that adapts as life changes
Providing professional advocacy services for patients and the disabled. Personal representation, conservatorship support and executor services for individuals and families facing complex life transitions. With clinical background and systems-level experience, we help clients understand diagnoses, coordinate care, navigate the disability and legal maze, and make informed decisions when surrogate decision-making is required.
Bringing clarity, organization, and steady guidance during special circumstances—ensuring your voice, rights, and best interests remain at the center of every step.
Guidance for families and caregivers facing challenges with helping older loved ones, those living alone, experiencing memory loss, and in more advanced cognitive decline. We provide practical strategies, behavior management techniques, emotional guidance, and coordination tools tailored to your loved one’s stage of life. Whether aging in place or exploring care options, we are in YOUR corner.
Reduce stress. Improve quality of life. Supporting the path forward.
Get clear, compassionate support when facing a terminal illness. We can help guide you in making informed choices, honoring your values, and finding peace during the final chapter of life. We provide professional, tailored end-of-life guidance and help for those facing serious illness or life-limiting conditions.
After-loss assistance services are an option to all families. We collaborate with you in navigating and prioritizing immediate needs, next steps, administrative tasks, and help with closing a loved one's life with grace and care. Our approach is grounded in professional experience, ethical boundaries, and family-centered advocacy.
Create meaning, closure, and the goodbye you want.
Compassionate Consultation for Planning, Care Coordination, Advocacy and Loss
Serving Middle Tennessee and beyond — in person or virtually
Navigating life changes in aging, dementias, new diagnosis or in managing a terminal illness can feel overwhelming. Sometimes you just need someone in your corner.
That’s where Shannon Pearson, BSN, RN, and the OYT team steps in.
Shannon is a practicing, double board-certified neurology nurse and end-of-life practitioner. She is a hospice and palliative care nurse, a board certified patient advocate and is a Fellow with the (ICA) International Caregiver's Association. Shannon has extensively trained in chronic and terminal disease care, in dementia behavior management and as a patient advocate in multiple areas. She has served at the bedside for thousands of patients in the last 15 years, both as a nurse and as a healthcare educator. She has a deep understanding and sense of what people need when they are looking for answers to the hard questions.
At On Your Terms, Shannon empowers individuals and families to face the journey ahead with clarity, dignity, and peace of mind. Whether you’re planning ahead, dealing with a chronic or urgent circumstance, or in the initial after loss phase, she’s here to listen, guide, and walk with you every step of the way.
Schedule a free 30-minute consultation below to share your situation and explore how she can support you or how she can help your healthcare team' s continued growth through professional education and CE's.
Having Shannon as our dementia consultant was invaluable. She helped us to understand the medical side of my husband’s condition, and steer through the constant roller coaster. She helped us speak with our doctors- which had been frustrating. She connected us with community support groups, respite care options, and even legal resources we hadn’t considered. Her knowledge and compassion lifted a huge burden off my shoulders as a caregiver.
Working with Shannon, was a game-changer for me and for our family. I felt helpless about my father’s needs as he aged and had ongoing health issues. Her depth of knowledge, calm presence, and clear guidance not only helped us navigate complex medical issues but truly empowered my father to make choices about his own care and lifestyle. She made sure he felt heard, respected, and in control. One person can make a big difference.
Shannon and her team provided the end-of-life support our family didn’t know we needed. The compassion, guidance, and professionalism made a difficult time more meaningful and less frightening. We felt supported and empowered every step of the way. I can’t imagine going through this without them.