Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Bereavement and Grief

Riordan, Paul A.; Price, Meghan; Robbins-Welty, Gregg A.; Leff, Victoria; Jones, Christopher A.; Prigerson, Holly G.; Galanos, Anthony N.

doi:10.1089/jpm.2020.0341

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“…Professionals working in hospice can use their communication skills to gently inquire about a patient’s expectations in life and offer proper support and resources. Such an approach can aid families in dealing with emotional challenges and increase their willingness to enroll in hospice care, as per the findings of Riordan et al (2020).…”

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The Role of Hospice Tours in Promoting Hospice Enrollment: A Study of Taiwanese Family Members

Huang,

Chen,

et al. 2024

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In Taiwan, hospice nurses often take family members of terminally ill patients on hospice ward tours and provide information on transfers. We conducted a study to investigate the tour’s effectiveness in encouraging family members to transfer their loved ones to hospice. We conceptualized our study framework based on the Andersen healthcare utilization model. The hospice nurses invited family members who participated in the tour to complete the survey to investigate the tour and hospice facilities’ influence on their willingness to transfer. A total of 87 participants responded to the study, with an average age of 48.84 ± 12.08 years. Most participants were women (78.16%) and the children of patients (55.17%). The results showed that the tour significantly increased willingness scores (before 4.46 ± 0.73, after 4.74 ± 0.58, p = .0036). Practical and activity-related facilities had the highest influence scores. However, binary logistic regression revealed that patients aged ≥65 years (odds ratio [OR]: 0.281, 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.099, 0.797]) and higher influence scores for psychospiritual care features (OR: 0.182, 95% CI [0.040, 0.821]) negatively affected the change in willingness score, possibly due to family members’ anticipatory grief. Hospice tour guides should be able to identify, assess, and deal with this issue. Overall, hospice tours can effectively encourage transfer to the hospice ward, but addressing psychological barriers such as anticipatory grief is crucial for success.

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The Role of Hospice Tours in Promoting Hospice Enrollment: A Study of Taiwanese Family Members

Huang,

Chen,

et al. 2024

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“…1 Physicians, even palliative care physicians, who often work with dying patients, lack adequate education on grief and bereavement, limiting their ability to respond to these universal experiences. 4 Unlike complicated grief, which captures an emotional reaction to loss, 1 disenfranchised grief captures the psychological, sociological, and political aspects of loss. 5 In particular, disenfranchised grief describes the experience of grieving losses that are unacknowledged or unsupported by social systems.…”

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Grief: The Epidemic Within an Epidemic

Petry

Hughes

Galanos

2020

Am J Hosp Palliat Care

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COVID-19 has not only dramatically changed the way we live, it has also impacted how we die and how we grieve. With more and more Americans dying in ICU settings, away from family, and more funerals being held virtually, the pandemic has seriously curtailed normal expressions of grief and cultural mourning. Given the CDC guidelines for funerals and social distancing, simple human touch is no longer a mitigating force against prolonged grief. So, while one epidemic has a face and a name, we point to a second, more silent yet potentially equally devastating one, unacknowledged grief, and emphasize how policy can be a current therapeutic. We can wait for a vaccine, but we can also act now through thoughtful policymaking that acknowledges this second epidemic.

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“…Bereavement is best known as a condition of being deprived of the presence of one’s loved one (can be anyone whom one has had a close relationship with) due to their death ( Riordan et al, 2020 ). Further, it is a period in which a person who experienced loss undergoes grief and mourning ( Mughal et al, 2018 ).…”

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The Lived Experiences of Bereaved Filipino Families of the Deceased Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The typical highlight of Filipino mourning of conducting funerals and burials has ceased due to recent health guidelines which required the deceased, who tested positive for the virus, to be cremated and buried right away to avoid further spread of the disease – making bereavement more complicated. This paper investigates the experiences of bereaved Filipino families who lost their loved ones to COVID-19 through a qualitative research design. Researchers explored the experiences of at least three (3) COVID-19 bereaved families through a descriptive phenomenological approach and analyzed the data using thematic analysis to extract the bereavement process experienced by the participants. The findings of the study highlight the changes to the Filipino funeral practice caused by the pandemic and the major roles of connectedness, and cultural and religious beliefs in the Filipino bereavement experience.

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Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Bereavement and Grief

Cited by 5 publications

References 72 publications

The Role of Hospice Tours in Promoting Hospice Enrollment: A Study of Taiwanese Family Members

The Role of Hospice Tours in Promoting Hospice Enrollment: A Study of Taiwanese Family Members

Grief: The Epidemic Within an Epidemic

The Lived Experiences of Bereaved Filipino Families of the Deceased Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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