Supporting You in Your Time of Grief

Tabitha’s comprehensive bereavement program offers support to spouses and family members during a time of loss.

Tabitha Hospice offers bereavement services for 18 months following the loss of your loved one.

  • Individual grief support
  • Grief support groups
  • Educational grief events
  • Phone call check-ins/support
  • Remembrance services
  • Mailings, including grief support, Embrace newsletter, resources and more

Tabitha Hospice Bereavement Coordinators

Our Bereavement Coordinators provide grief support following the death of your loved one.

Jason Padilla - Bereavement Coordinator

Jason Padilla

Serving the Lincoln/Lancaster Area
402.366.6791

Daniel Rogers

Dan Rogers

Serving the Grand Island, Kearney & York Areas
402.366.6791

Grief Support Groups & Remembrance Services

Tabitha is proud to offer Grief Support Groups throughout the year as a service to family members and friends experiencing the recent death of a loved one. The meetings promote healthy conversation between a Tabitha team member specifically trained in grief support and a small group of individuals going through a common experience.

The purpose of Tabitha’s grief support groups is to equip participants with the tools and resources needed to reinvest in life.

Grief Tip Videos

Tabitha’s Bereavement Coordinators bring you words of advice, grief education, support and more in these grief tip videos
created just for Tabitha Hospice.

Grief Note

Grieving—under normal circumstances—is difficult. However, when you are facing the holidays, it can be even harder.

You may be wondering how you will make it through these next couple of months. You may miss your loved one more than usual because you’re grieving the holiday traditions you’d usually do together.

The festive and joyful mood of this time of year can make you feel disconnected or distraught.

Some people look for signs of hope during the dark and cold months of winter. Cardinals, special songs or carols, family recipes, decorations, and keeping up traditions can foster good memories as you continue to grieve your loss.

You can still Celebrate your loved one in their absence, facing the good and grieving parts of the holidays together.

Our upcoming groups have been curated to provide you with meaningful support:

“Remembering Angels” Service

Join us this December for our annual remembrance service in memory of the Clients who Tabitha Hospice has served. We’ll have a short service including the angel lighting ceremony, songs, poems and prayers. Attendees will receive an angel ornament to take home. Please RSVP.

“Facing the Holidays” Support Groups

In the Aurora, Grand Island and Seward areas, please join us for our holiday support groups. November’s theme is “Being Grateful Grievers” and December’s is “Letting Joy Back In.” View dates and times here.

As always, if you are in need of individual support, please contact us anytime.

Grief Book and Podcast Suggestions

Sometimes finding the right book, website or podcast can help you process thoughts, feelings and provide helpful insight or information. Check out suggestions by types of loss.

Tips for Caregivers

Assisting someone under hospice care can be difficult. Tabitha offers a variety of helpful articles from managing anticipatory grief, taking care of yourself, visiting with children, reminiscing, communication, spiritual health and talking to someone on hospice.
Tips for Caregivers: Anticipating Holidays
Anticipatory Grief & the Holidays

Anticipatory grief is a hard journey, and holidays make it even harder. Here are some tips to help cope with anticipatory grief.

Tips for Caregivers: Take Care of Yourself to Better Care for Others
Take Care of Yourself to Better Care for Others

Caretaking, in any instance, but especially during hospice care can be difficult. Try these tips to avoid caregiver burnout and support your mental health.

Tips for Caregivers: Children Visiting a Loved One
Children Visiting a Loved One

The best thing to do for children before visiting a loved one in a hospital or senior living community is to prepare them for the visit.

Tips for Caregivers: Reminisce Now
Reminisce Now

Sharing past recollections is valuable for your loved one as they near the end of their life. Use these helpful tips to talk to a loved one about their memories and experiences.

Using Social Media to Communicate
Using Social Media to Communicate

Using social media to communicate about sensitive subjects, like serious illness or impending death, requires thought and consideration.

Tips for Caregivers: Maintain Your Spiritual Health
Maintain Your Spiritual Health

When dealing with a serious illness and death, spiritual issues often arise. Here are some tips to keeping the faith when grieving.

Tips for Caregivers: Talking to a Loved One Under Hospice Care
Talking to a Loved One Under Hospice Care

Determining how to approach a loved one about their chronic illness or death in general is challenging, but can be easier when you have the facts.

Tips for Caregivers: Ruminating in Grief
Ruminating in Grief

Grief has many elements. Sometimes we focus on one aspect over and over, also referred to as “looping.” Here are tips to help cope with “the loop.”

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