Grief Education for Caregivers of the Elderly

• Introduction
• An Old Woman's Story
• Beginning Assumptions
• The Role of Personal Experience
• The Role of Grief Education
• Concerns About Aging
• Historical Trends and Eldercare
• The Grief Education Workshop Format
• An Overview of This Book
• Chapter 1: The Challenge of Grief Education for Caregivers of the Institutionalized Elderly
• Grief and Loss Support Services Needed
• The Scope of the Need
• A Mandate for Grief Education
• The Goal of Grief Education
• Grief Education Objectives
• Chapter 2: Aging and the Elderly
• The Development of Life Span Perspective
• Characteristics of Old Age
• Definitions of Aging
• The Grief of Growing Old
• A Description of the Aging Process
• Explanatory Theories of Aging
• Chapter 3: Bereavement and the Elderly
• Universal Bereavement Responses
• General Observations
• Why Do We Grieve?
• Grief as Normal Life Crisis
• Bereavement Study
• Types of Loss
• The Tasks of Mourning
• Grief Work: How Long?
• Factors That Affect the Course of Grief
• Phases of Bereavement
• Effects of Bereavement in Elderly
• Chapter 4: Death and Dying and the Elderly
• Death and Society
• Dying and the Individual
• Death and Dying: A Developmental Point of View
• Death and Dying Responses
• Dying with Integrity
• The Dying Process
• Tasks of the Dying Person
• Complications
• Death and Dying and Elderly Persons
• Death and the Life Cycle
• Chapter 5: Workshop Design--A Successful Model
• Workshop Expectations
• A Successful Program
• Phases of Workshop Design
• Generalizations of Learning
• Summary: The Ten Commandments of Grief Education
• Chapter 6: Caregivers: Practitioners, Helpers, and Companions
• Who Is a Caregiver?
• Developing a Continuum of Care Model
• Continuum of Care Contexts
• Caregiver Frustrations
• Obstacles to Caregiving
• To Help or Not To Help?
• Predisposition to Assist Aging and Dying Elderly Persons
• General Caregiving Intervention Goals
• Stage-Appropriate Objectives
• The Role of the Grief Counselor
• Counseling and the Elderly
• The Caregiver and Self-Care
• Chapter 7: Clergy as Caregivers
• Pastoral Care Traditions
• Community Traditions of Pastoral Care
• Pastoral Caregiving Experiences
• Assessment of Clergy as Caregivers
• Problems with the Pastoral Caregiving Task
• A Definition of Pastoral Care to the Grieving and Elderly
• The Goal of Pastoral Caregiving
• Pastoral Objectives for Working with the Aged, Bereaved, and Dying
• General Pastoral Care Strategies Reviewed
• The Art of Pastoral Caregiving: Learnings from Ministry with Elderly People
• The Pastoral Caregiver as Recovered Healer
• Chapter 8: Envisioning Eldercare: The Next Fifty Years
• The Future of Eldercare
• Challenge One: Understanding the Realities of Old Age
• Challenge Two: Creating Spaces for Ethical Dialogue
• Challenge Three: Conserving Resources and Enhancing Quality Care
• Challenge Four: Using Education As a Resource
• Challenge Five: Caregiving When All Our Houses Are Full of the Elderly
• Conclusion
• Appendixes: Workshops
• Workshop 1. Attachment, Loss, and the Process of Mourning
• Objectives
• Schedule
• Personal Grief History
• Grief and Loss Case Study
•  Participant Evaluation Form
• Workshop 2. Bereavement
• Schedule
• Aging: As I Imagine Myself
• Behaviors That Encourage Expression of Needs
• Bereavement Workshop Evaluation Form
•  Workshop 3. Grief and Loss
•  Schedule
• Death and Dying: Attitudes Checklist
•  Workshop 4. The Art of Caring for the Dying Person
•  About the Workshop
• Schedule
•  Registration Form
•  Workshop 5. When Someone Dies
• Workshop Objectives
•  Schedule
•  Caregiv

Biography

Koenig, Harold G; Mccall, Junietta B