"Give Sorrow Words": Working With Bereavement in Senior Residential Settings. Issue 11 (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aldrich, C. Knight
• Is Part Of: Journal of nervous and mental disease. Volume 203:Issue 11(2015:Nov.)
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: Grief -- psychotherapy -- mourning; Neurology -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; Neurology; Psychiatry; Neurologie; Psychiatrie; Neurology; Psychiatry; Periodicals; 616.8005
• DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000383
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-3018

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: Bereavement and its consequent grief are frequent in senior residential settings. Failure to manage grief appropriately can have serious medical consequences, principally clinical depression. Focused talk with a grieving person can help ease the pain of grief; it can also help prevent complications that often lead to depression. Along with mental health professionals, staff members and volunteers can be important, and less expensive, participants in reaching this goal.