Caregiver Grief and Anticipatory Mourning

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn D’Antonio
Keyword(s):  
Anticipatory Mourning ◽  
Caregiver Grief

scholarly journals The Role of Advance Care Planning in Cancer Patient and Caregiver Grief Resolution: Helpful or Harmful?

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1977
Author(s):  
Francesca Falzarano ◽  
Holly G. Prigerson ◽  
Paul K. Maciejewski
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Advance Care Planning ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
Do Not Resuscitate ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal Study ◽  
Advance Care ◽  
Grief Resolution ◽  
Caregiver Grief ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal

Cancer patients and their family caregivers experience various losses when patients become terminally ill, yet little is known about the grief experienced by patients and caregivers and factors that influence grief as patients approach death. Additionally, few, if any, studies have explored associations between advance care planning (ACP) and grief resolution among cancer patients and caregivers. To fill this knowledge gap, the current study examined changes in grief over time in patients and their family caregivers and whether changes in patient grief are associated with changes in caregiver grief. We also sought to determine how grief changed following the completion of advance directives. The sample included advanced cancer patients and caregivers (n = 98 dyads) from Coping with Cancer III, a federally funded, multi-site prospective longitudinal study of end-stage cancer care. Participants were interviewed at baseline and at follow-up roughly 2 months later. Results suggest synchrony, whereby changes in patient grief were associated with changes in caregiver grief. We also found that patients who completed a living will (LW) experienced increases in grief, while caregivers of patients who completed a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order experienced reductions in grief, suggesting that ACP may prompt “grief work” in patients while promoting grief resolution in caregivers.

scholarly journals Cathy’s mourning in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Albert Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, illness and death cause characters to foresee, fear and react to other characters’ deaths. In this article, I explore the significance of Cathy’s anticipatory mourning of, and response to, the eventual actual deaths of her ailing father, Edgar, and her sickly cousin, Linton. Core 19th-century perspectives and fears relating to illness and death are both evident and contested in the representation of Cathy’s anxiety and suffering. I also investigate how Cathy’s grief is exacerbated by and affects the behaviour of other characters, notably Nelly, Linton, Heathcliff, Zillah and Hareton. The depiction of these characters’ responses to Cathy’s misery enriches their portrayal, implying that Cathy’s fear and grief are integral to both the novel’s plot and its character development.

Farewell Letters I: The Dying Process of a Healthy Man

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-388
Author(s):  
Joachim Wittkowski
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Circular Model ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

This qualitative case study describes the dying process from a purely psychological perspective. The letters of Count Moltke, who was sentenced to death and executed during the Nazi regime, to his wife were analyzed content analytically. A work program of four self-imposed tasks emerged, namely first to avert the death sentence, second to prepare for the ideological and intellectual battle with the chairman of the court, third to support his wife in her anticipatory mourning, and fourth to achieve willingness for his dying by strangulation and for losing his life. Contrasting these findings with two cases of incurably ill men confirmed work and structure as the overarching way of coping. Religious coping is also of central importance. There was neither a linear trajectory nor a sequence of phases; rather, Moltke’s dying process corresponds to a circular model. A consequence of the findings is outlined.

Anticipatory mourning: a complex social phenomenon quickly generalised

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 304-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Allard ◽  
Alain Legault ◽  
Christine Genest
Keyword(s):  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Anticipatory Mourning

Toward a Model of Caregiver Grief: Nurses' Experiences of Treating Dying Children

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Jill Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Emotional Tension ◽  
Grief Reaction ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Dying Children ◽  
Caregiver Grief ◽  
The Relationship

This study explored the emotional experiences of fifteen American nurses who work with terminally ill children. Structured interviews were conducted which considered the relationships and the emotional experiences of one who works with dying children. Specific questions that addressed attitudes and reactions to the dying process were asked, and the notion of a grief reaction was explored. Results from this study indicate that participants experience a form of “emotional tension” in their struggle to balance the intense emotional feelings that exist when treating dying children with their desire and need to be competent care providers. Their emotional experiences are influenced by the relationship that is established with their patient and by the child's dying process. It was concluded that when caregivers recognize the need to grieve and express their feelings while acknowledging that this is a natural, normal, and appropriate manner in which to respond to the death of a patient, they then become better able to take care of themselves, and thus their patients. A proposed model of caregivers' grief is presented.

scholarly journals The Birmingham Relationship Continuity Measure: the development and evaluation of a measure of the perceived continuity of spousal relationships in dementia

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard A. Riley ◽  
Gemma Fisher ◽  
Barbara F. Hagger ◽  
Amy Elliott ◽  
Hannah Le Serve ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Item Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Discriminative Power ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Relationship Continuity ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Caregiver Grief

ABSTRACTBackground: Qualitative research has suggested that spousal carers of someone with dementia differ in terms of whether they perceive their relationship with that person as continuous with the premorbid relationship or as radically different, and that a perception of continuity may be associated with more person-centered care and the experience of fewer of the negative emotions associated with caring. The aim of the study was to develop and evaluate a quantitative measure of the extent to which spousal carers perceive the relationship to be continuous.Methods: An initial pool of 42 questionnaire items was generated on the basis of the qualitative research about relationship continuity. These were completed by 51 spousal carers and item analysis was used to reduce the pool to 23 items. The retained items, comprising five subscales, were then administered to a second sample of 84 spousal carers, and the questionnaire's reliability, discriminative power, and validity were evaluated.Results: The questionnaire showed good reliability: Cronbach's α for the full scale was 0.947, and test–retest reliability was 0.932. Ferguson's δ was 0.987, indicating good discriminative power. Evidence of construct validity was provided by predicted patterns of subscale correlations with the Closeness and Conflict Scale and the Marwit–Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory.Conclusion: Initial psychometric evaluation of the measure was encouraging. The measure provides a quantitative means of investigating ideas from qualitative research about the role of relationship continuity in influencing how spousal carers provide care and how they react emotionally to their caring role.

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