2010 Summer Bereavement Programs

June 16, 2010 - PRLog -- Each person’s grief is as individual as a fingerprint. Coming together with others who have experienced the loss of a loved one is often a comfort. Grief support groups and programs create a safe and confidential atmosphere for all participants with educational and support materials provided to help guide participants.

This summer, Lory’s Place and Hospice at Home are offering a variety of bereavement programs that are free to our community:

Movie Night
Write Out Our Grief
Making Memories: Memory Pillow Project     
Photography Group     
Camp Lifetimes  
Personality Pages  
A Different Kind of Writer’s Group  
Creative Grief Expressions
Let’s Go Fly a Kite
Mixed Media Art – Adult Group
Mixed Media Art – Children’s Group
Walking Group
Lory’s Place Book Club

These programs are offered at several different locations and times throughout the summer. Please call Lory’s Place at 269-983-2707 for more information and to register. Additional details are also available at www.hospiceathomecares.org and www.lorysplace.org.
   
Hospice at Home also offers ongoing groups that meet during the evening for adults and children at Lory’s Place Grief Healing and Education Center. The groups include regularly scheduled age-appropriate support group sessions that allow children and adults to interact with peers who have suffered similar loss. Groups for children and adults who are anticipating a loss or who have experienced a loss through pregnancy are also available, as well as educational and workplace grief programs. All community bereavement services are provided free of charge thanks to local community contributions.

Hospice at Home is the non-profit community hospice focusing on the patient and family regardless of the patients' diagnosis, treatment choices, life expectancy, or ability to pay. It provides quality care to people adjusting to living with a serious illness, to people facing death, to people anticipating the death of a loved one, or to people healing their grief after the death of a loved one. Hospice at Home places an emphasis on the emotional, social, and spiritual needs of those who need care and those receiving support services. Serving Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties, the care is coordinated by a team of physicians, nurses, home health aides, social workers, spiritual care counselors, bereavement coordinators, and trained volunteers. Extending this care, Lory’s Place, a bereavement and education center that builds hope and strength for every grieving family, is available to anyone in Southwest Michigan or Northern Indiana.

For more information contact Hospice at Home at 269-429-7100 or 1-800-HOSPICE, or go to www.hospiceathomecares.org or contact Lory’s Place at 269-983-2707 or 1-800-717-3812, or go to www.lorysplace.org.

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Hospice at Home is your non-profit hospice provider for SW Michigan. Offering comfort, dignity, and compassion to the terminally ill through a holistic, non-curative, approach to care, focused on enhancing the lives of patients for their remaining days.