Grief Support for Adults on Medicare
If you're carrying a loss that still feels heavy, you don’t have to go through it alone. Sailor Health connects adults on Medicare with experienced therapists who understand grief in later life, and offer support through secure video or phone sessions. Most of our patients have a $0 copay.
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Grief itself isn't a mental disorder, but when symptoms are intense or persistent, a therapist may recommend treatment for conditions like prolonged grief, complicated grief, or depression. They’ll look at how your loss is affecting sleep, appetite, daily life, and your ability to feel moments of relief or connection, then help you make sense of your grief and find find ways to cope and keep moving forward.
Sailor Health therapists provide space to talk openly about your loss, your relationship with the person or role you’ve lost, and the changes you’re facing now. Therapy can help you honor your grief, stay connected to what you’ve lost in a meaningful way, and slowly rebuild a life that includes both remembrance and new experiences.
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT): Directly addresses loss and grief, helping you process the emotional weight of losing a loved one and gradually adjust to life in their absence.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Helps you work through thoughts that may be complicating your grief, like guilt, self-blame, or the belief that things will never improve. CBT also helps you rebuild a sense of meaning.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Supports you in carrying grief alongside your life without letting it close off connection, purpose, or moments of joy.
- Reminiscence Therapy (RT): Draws on your memories and stories of who or what you've lost, helping grief become a living tribute rather than only a source of pain.
- Behavioral Therapy (BT): Gently reintroduces activities and connections that grief has pulled you away from, supporting gradual re-engagement with daily life.
- Problem Solving Therapy (PST): Helps with the practical and emotional challenges grief often brings: like navigating a new role, managing daily life alone, or making decisions under stress.
- Solution Focused Therapy (SFT): Identifies your existing resilience and moments of forward movement to help you take meaningful steps through the grief process.
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Plan Your Care
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Start Your Journey
Begin your care in as little as 24 hours after.
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Frequently asked questions
Grief is the emotional, physical, and relational response to losing someone or something important. It can involve sadness, numbness, anger, guilt, confusion, or a sense of disbelief. For many older adults, grief is tied to the loss of partners, friends, health, or independence.
Is grief something therapy can actually help with? Doesn't it just take time?
Time does help, but therapy helps more. Grief doesn't follow a schedule, and when you feel stuck cycling back to the same pain without moving forward a therapist can help you process what you're carrying so you're not doing it alone.
I've lost my spouse, several close friends, and my sense of purpose. Is that too much to work through in therapy?
Layered losses are exactly what our specialized providers have experience treating. You don't have to sort through everything at once. Therapy gives you a place to start and someone to help you work through it, at your own pace.
Will a therapist understand what it's like to lose a partner of 40+ years?
Therapists who work with older adults have witnessed this kind of grief many times, and they bring both professional training and genuine life experience to those conversations. You won't have to explain why it still hurts.
