Navigating changes in later life can feel isolating and lonesome, especially when those changes include grief and loss. This can and often does include the loss of loved ones, but can also mean a loss of other intangible elements in one’s life that may lead to feelings of unmooring and helplessness.

Seniors may mourn the loss of certain freedoms they once enjoyed, including the loss of their mobility. Perhaps even more fundamentally, they may mourn the loss of what was or was never and may never be again.