With you before, during, and long after.
Watching someone you love decline is its own kind of loss, and it starts long before the last day. Our bereavement support is there for both parts, and it does not end when the care does.
Before
Anticipatory grief is real grief. The sadness, the anger, the guilt about being tired, the strange feeling of mourning someone who is still here. We support families through this part, and it is often the part nobody warns you about.
After
Bereavement support continues for thirteen months after a death, and longer if a family wants it. There is no clock on this, and there is no cost.
What's available to you.
- One-to-one counseling with a grief support professional
- Group sessions with people carrying a similar loss
- Support for children and grandchildren, in language that suits their age
- Help understanding what grief does, so it feels less like something going wrong
- Immediate support in the hardest weeks, whenever they land
- Help planning a memorial, a ritual, or however you choose to mark it
- Creative outlets — writing, music, making something — for what words do not reach
- Referrals to counselors, community organizations and longer-term support
- Support for a sudden loss, a complicated one, or one that carries its own history
- Follow-up calls and check-ins, because the fourth month is often harder than the first
You do not have to have been our patient's family.
Our bereavement support is open to the families we cared for, and we will always try to help anyone in our community who calls. If we are not the right support, we will tell you who is.
Grief keeps its own calendar.
Birthdays, holidays, the date itself. We check in around those, because they are the days people expect to manage alone and often cannot.
You can call us about this at any point.
Years later still counts. There is no expiry on it.