Memorialisation during COVID-19: implications for the bereaved, service providers and policy makers

J Lowe, B Rumbold, SM Aoun - Palliative Care and Social …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The aim of this rapid perspective review is to capture key changes to
memorialisation practices resulting from social distancing rules implemented due to the …

Exploring the use of virtual funerals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

A MacNeil, B Findlay, R Bimman… - OMEGA-Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic and physical distancing limitations have had a profound impact on
funeral practices and associated grieving processes. The purpose of the present scoping …

Bereavement support: from the poor cousin of palliative care to a core asset of compassionate communities

SM Aoun - Progress in Palliative Care, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The negative consequences of bereavement and the disruption of social relationships put
the impact of bereavement squarely into a public health perspective. Adopting and …

What are these strange things called emotions? An analysis of service interactions in the funeral industry: Issues, implications, and future research directions

B Korai, C Ouellet, J Cloutier - Services Marketing Quarterly, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The role played by emotions in funeral services, as in unwanted services in general, is still
largely unexplored in the literature. While no theoretical attempt has been made yet to shed …

Funeral practices and grief

J Birrell, K Woodthorpe, M Stroebe, H Rumble… - Bereavement …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Does restricting the ceremonial/ritual arrangements around a cremation to a minimum have
a negative association with grief over time? This question has increasingly concerned …

Population-based approaches

E Hodges, N Archer, H Prince… - Oxford Textbook of …, 2022 - books.google.com
Introduction Clark (2002) summarizes the challenges for palliative care as 'The challenge for
palliative physicians is no different to that facing their counterparts elsewhere in medicine …