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Visiting Agrace (effective March 1, 2023):

Visitors must self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms and sign in at the reception desk before they can visit Agrace’s hospice inpatient units and other areas of our buildings.
Visitors must wear an N95/KN95 or Agrace-provided surgical mask while at Agrace. Visitors must wear a face mask in any place they may encounter patients or staff. The only times visitors may be without a mask are if they are eating or drinking in the café or in an enclosed space, like a patient room or private kitchenette, with no staff present.

If you have any questions before visiting Agrace, please call (800) 553-4289

Spiritual Support

Spiritual support can be highly meaningful and comforting as people face the end of life.

What is spiritual support?

In the final months of life, it is common for spiritual questions and concerns to surface. While it’s unique to each person, spirituality often includes our thoughts about meaning, purpose, beliefs and values, and our relationship with self, others, nature, the universe and God or a higher power.

Having spiritual support at the end of life is one of the key benefits of hospice care, because spirituality can have a powerful effect on a person’s health and quality of life. Each Agrace care team includes an experienced spiritual & grief counselor, who provides both spiritual care and grief support to the hospice patient and their family and friends, as needed or requested.

Agrace serves people of all faith traditions and spiritual practices, including those who are not religious. Our spiritual & grief counselors do not promote any specific faith tradition or religious beliefs. Our care is guided by our patient’s and their family’s beliefs, needs and requests. We strive to offer support that is meaningful and comforting.

How does spiritual support help?

Spiritual support is for the person who’s on hospice, and also those who will survive them. Either may ask for a visit from an Agrace spiritual & grief counselor. Here’s how we help:

We actively listen, to help you deal with feelings like sadness, regret, fear, loss, forgiveness, despair or anger.
We can talk with you about spiritual or religious questions of belief.
We can offer rituals, blessings and prayers from a spiritual, religious or humanist perspective.
We can help you and your family connect with your faith community or spiritual leader.
We can offer spiritual and emotional support to family members as a person is actively dying and in the difficult hours and days after the death.
We lead memorial services for our patients, if we are asked and are available.

Agrace’s grief support for surviving family members lasts for a year after the death, and includes phone calls, individual counseling, mailings of helpful material and grief support groups.