Benefits for Retirement Communities

The Healing through Grieving Program is designed to keep
the bereaved involved in the process of healing through grieving.

• Acknowledges the loss and grief
• Opportunity to express love and
  support by the Residents in a practical
  way when the program is provided by
  a Bereavement Memorial Fund
• Reduces the impact of grief on the residents
• Builds a community culture of
  caring for each other
   

• Acknowledges the loss and grief that accompanies a death
• Expresses the love and support
  of the staff
• Reduces the impact of grief on
  the care-givers, e.g. burnout
  and poorer work performance
   

• Acknowledges the loss and grief
• Expresses the Administrations Support
• Demonstrates concern for the Staff as well as residents
• The Program is a resource for stimulating discussion around relevant issues in the grieving process in grief support and educational groups.
  (The Program comes with a Leader’s Guide)

•  Is an excellent marketing tool.
  
  Giving copies of Loss of Parent
  (Adult Loss) to adult children of
  a deceased resident shows that
  the home or facility values the
  residents in the community
  
  They also get in touch with
  their own mortality and future
  need for entering such a caring
  community.