How Do I Cope With Loss?
We hope that we can help you deal with your grief. Learn more about how we may help you, or someone you love.
Coping With Loss – Book List
There are many fine books concerning grief and loss. We have listed a few here, which may help you and your family with your grief process.
When Someone You Love Dies
Grief is a normal emotional response to the loss of a loved one. As much as one would like to avoid dealing with grief, it is important to acknowledge the death and the feelings associated with it. Acknowledging grief is…
Working Through Grief Takes Time
Grief is the normal emotional response to losing a loved one. As much as we’d rather avoid dealing with it, grief is important. It is the process by which one begins to accept the reality of loss and adjust to…
HOC Celebrates Memorial Day 2021
On Thursday, May 27, HOC hosted two Memorial Day services: one outside of the Blue Ash IPCC, and one outside of the Hamilton IPCC. Both events were well attended, and included a flag folding ceremony, the Pledge of Allegiance and…
HOC Honors Vietnam Veterans During the 50th Commemoration of the Vietnam War
The year is 1969. A young man is returning home from Vietnam. He is told to change out of his uniform as soon as he arrives to avoid any hostilities from the public. There is no welcome home. He quietly…
Legacy Projects at HOC Help Patients Connect Past, Present and Future
End-of-life experts at Hospice of Cincinnati say it’s common for people to become concerned about their legacy in their final days. Because part of the hospice’s mission is to create a meaningful end-of-life experience, staff and volunteers have begun to…
The 5 Questions Everyone Should Answer About How They Want to Live and Die
It’s not easy to talk death with loved ones, but the time to have the conversation is now. Laura Alexoff’s father had an aging body, but his mind was still sharp. “For about the last 10 years of his life,…
Chaplain Levi Gause Shares His Story
“It’s a sacred experience, to be invited into a patient’s life and walk this journey with them,” says Chaplain Levi Gause, ThM, BCC, who serves patients at Hospice of Cincinnati’s Margret J. Thomas Inpatient Care Center in Blue Ash. His…