Grief and the COVID-19 pandemic in older adults

JS Goveas, MK Shear - The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2020 - Elsevier
In few periods in human history have bereavement and grief been on so many people's
minds as they are today. As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ravages the world …

Bereavement care in the wake of COVID-19: offering condolences and referrals

WG Lichtenthal, KE Roberts… - Annals of Internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
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Prolonged grief related to COVID-19 deaths: Do we have to fear a steep rise in traumatic and disenfranchised griefs?

CK Kokou-Kpolou, M Fernández-Alcántara… - … , practice, and policy, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
The circumstances of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths embed multiple
traumatic characteristics, alongside several external factors that can disenfranchise …

Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief

RA Neimeyer, SA Lee - Death studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the relationship between reactions of the bereaved to conditions of the
pandemic and severity of their grief and levels of impairment. A total of 831 American adults …

[HTML][HTML] Conservative management of Covid-19 patients—emergency palliative care in action

T Fusi-Schmidhauser, NJ Preston, N Keller… - Journal of pain and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Context The COVID-19 pandemic is spreading across the world. Many patients will not be
suitable for mechanical ventilation owing to the underlying health conditions, and they will …

'A silent epidemic of grief': a survey of bereavement care provision in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Pearce, JR Honey, R Lovick, NZ Creamer, C Henry… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To investigate the experiences and views of practitioners in the UK and Ireland
concerning changes in bereavement care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Online …

COVID-19, prolonged grief disorder and the role of social work

L Johns, P Blackburn… - International Social Work, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The death rate that we are seeing from COVID-19 is unimaginable, with experts predicting
the pandemic will ultimately claim hundreds of thousands of lives. The death toll has already …

Acute grief after deaths due to COVID-19, natural causes and unnatural causes: An empirical comparison

MC Eisma, A Tamminga, GE Smid… - Journal of affective …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background There are now over 800,000 registered deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic
worldwide. Researchers have suggested that COVID-19 death characteristics (eg, intensive …

Expressing grief through metaphors: Family caregivers' experience of care and grief during the Covid-19 pandemic

A Guité-Verret, M Vachon, D Ummel… - … journal of qualitative …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted thousands of individuals' experience of
caregiving and grief. This qualitative study aimed to gain in-dept understanding of family …

Death, dying, and dignity in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

HM Chochinov, J Bolton, J Sareen - Journal of palliative medicine, 2020 - liebertpub.com
If the first casualty of war is truth, the first casualty of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for
patients nearing death is human dignity. Although the pandemic has claimed* 6800 …