Bereavement support is an integral part of palliative care. Grieving after loss is a normal process; however, some grief reactions become complicated and may seriously compromise the health of an individual. Routine bereavement care helps identify people at risk of complicated grieving. The burden of grief can last for years, sometimes indefinitely. People caring for the bereaved need to pay sp...

Families of potential post-mortem organ donors face various challenges in the unfamiliar hospital context and after returning home. This review of sources published between 1968 and 2017 seeks to understand their journey as a bereavement experience with a number of unique features. Grief theory was used to identify ways that staff can assist family members to tolerate ambiguities and vulnerabil...

In this article we study the process of grieving, places grief, and their multiple meanings in parents’ lives after loss a child. Based on interviews with nine parents, analyse socio-spatial dimensions practices bereavement. Grief, mourning, remembering are experienced physical body, as well through dialogue. According to our interviews, bereavement child continues be recurring experience throu...

The loss of a caregiver or loved one is tragic moment, which can have psychosocial impact on child. Children inside institutions either in foster residential care are prevalence to the experience neglect and parental bereavement. Bereavement endures variety factors that influence negatively child mental health. purpose this concept paper explain noteworthy contributions with regards information...

In their article, Umberson et al. (1) demonstrate that African Americans are much more likely than whites to experience deaths in their immediate family circle, and that this elevated exposure to death occurs at virtually all stages of the life cycle. Differential exposure to bereavement by race is likely to contribute to long-standing black−white differentials with respect to health and socioe...

Most deaths are preceded by chronic illness and disability and the provision of support by family caregivers. The purpose of this article is to describe how the caregiving experience affects bereavement, with an emphasis on the relationship between challenging caregiving situations and difficult grieving processes - often referred to as `complicated grief'. The article starts with a brief summa...

conclusions according to the results, parents need accurate information about the health and the death of their neonates in the nicu. they also need to communicate with healthcare professionals and their babies. communication is regarded as a channel for obtaining information. therefore, the healthcare team needs to address these families’ needs and attempt to fulfill their requirements in neon...

OBJECTIVE Bereavement effects on mortality risk were investigated in 1150 randomly selected participants, aged 60-104, in the Swedish National Study of Aging and Care. METHOD Cox proportional hazards models, controlling for age, gender, functional ability, the personality traits neuroticism and conscientiousness as well as time since the latest loss were used to predict mortality risk. RESU...

When I was a kid I wanted to be the kind of person who can crash land in the desert and walk for days to safety; the loyal adventurer who won’t give up searching the mountains for a friend even when everyone else is exhausted. Then I got a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. Life with type 1 is manageable, but it’s hard work to be adventurous and it’s impossible to be completely spontaneous. If I wer...