Grief Coach, a Text-Based Grief Support Intervention: Acceptability Among Hospice Family Members

Grief Coach is a text-based program designed to provide bereavement care and increase grief literacy through twice-weekly text support, education, tips and reminders to people who are grieving. Levesque and colleagues (2023) conducted an evaluation of the Grief Coach program to learn whether, why, and how bereaved program subscribers from hospice found the program helpful. Among survey respondents, 73% rated the program as very helpful, and 74% rated it as contributing to their sense of being supported in their grief. The findings suggest that Grief Coach may be a beneficial complement to existing hospice grief programming. Read more…