1st Edition
Life After A Death A Study of the Elderly Widowed
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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The recently widowed experience many complex problems, and an understanding of their needs and the kinds of difficulties they encounter is essential if appropriate services and help are to be mobilized. It is the old who are most likely to be widowed, and they may face this crisis at a time when they may also be adjusting to ill health and increasing infirmity, and to retirement, with its... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Caring for the spouse who died, 3. Information and discussion about the death, 4. Practical needs and circumstances in the early months of widowhood, 5. Health and the role of the general practitioner, 6. General practitioners' knowledge, perception, attitudes, and characteristics, 7. Emotional adjustment, loneliness, and their concomitants, 8. Isolation and the role of relatives and friends, 9. The impact on the familiars, 10. What can be done?, Appendices, Name index, Subject index
Biography
Ann Bowling and Ann Cartwright
