Background Serious illness is often characterised by physical/psychological problems,
family support needs, and high healthcare resource use. Hospital‐based specialist palliative …

Background: Palliative care standards and policies recommend that bereavement support
be provided to family caregivers, yet uncertainty surrounds whether support currently offered …

The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying
should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize …

This study identifies and describes the profiles of bereavement risk and support needs of a
community sample in Australia and tests the fit of the data with the three-tiered public health …

Aims: To determine who provides bereavement support in the community, what sources are
perceived to be the most or least helpful and for what reason, and to identify the empirical …

Background Standards for bereavement care propose that support should be matched to
risk and need. However, studies in many countries demonstrate that palliative care services …

Context Many family caregivers are not prepared for the death of their family member or
friend. Palliative care services tend to emphasize the patients' preparation for death rather …

Background Parentally bereaved children are at increased risk of negative consequences,
and the mediating factors most consistently identified are found to be related to family …

A Covid-19 provocou número elevado de perdas e mudanças nos processos de cuidado e
despedida, fatores que podem dificultar a elaboração do luto. Objetivamos, assim …

Context People bereaved from COVID-19 report higher levels of grief than people bereaved
from natural causes. The full impact of this onslaught of grief will not be known for some time …