Mourning the Death of a Spouse

When a spouse dies, your world changes. After the initial shock and fear, the surviving spouse is left to deal with the physical and emotional mourning pains.  There may be sleepless nights, loss of appetite and a hard time making decisions. Having good and bad days is normal.  Some people feel better quickly, others take longer to recover from the loss. As time passes, you have to start putting your life back together. 

Family and friends should be around to assist you. You may start to realize that it is ok to enjoy going out to dinner with friends or laughing at your grandkids jokes. There comes a time when you will have to face the changes in your life.  One of these changes may be the necessity for a different senior living arrangement.

When a family decides to work with Care Patrol, we develop a strong relationship that lasts way beyond a senior living placement. We often work with a client for months (and longer) as we develop a long term care plan and work towards a senior living solution. We stay in touch with families after placement in case care needs change. During that time, life happens - health conditions change, care needs increase, finances get spent down, and spouses die.

As a Care Patrol Senior Advisor, I have been on many phone calls, taken long walks, visited many hospitals and drank a lot of coffee with spouses that needed help with the next steps after the death of their spouse.  When our client Rita’s husband died, in addition to finding an assisted living community, she needed help finding an attorney to write a new will, look into a durable power of attorney in case she was unable to make her own medical decisions, put her home on the market, and find a way to donate her husband’s books, tools and model train collection.  Care Patrol was there for her every step of the way.

Care Patrol is here to assist you at no charge with any senior living questions and can help with assisted living, memory care, and in-home care arrangements. We will help you find the communities that have protocols in place to keep your loved ones safe. 

We are also here to bring you hope, because we know this industry, and nobody is better at helping seniors and their families than Care Patrol. If you need help finding care for a senior, please give Eric Klein a call at 847-653-1212.