Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Bereavement and Grief.
Palliative care (PC) focuses on caring for the whole person, from birth to death, while managing symptoms and helping to navigate medical complexities. Care does not stop at the time of death, however, as assisting patients, families, and fellow clinicians through grief and bereavement is within PC's purview. Unfortunately, many clinicians feel unprepared to deal with these topics. In this article, PC and hospice clinicians define and explain bereavement, distinguish normative grief from pathological grief, offer psychometrically sound scales to screen and follow those suffering from grief, and discuss the interaction between grief and bereavement and the physical and mental health of those who are left behind after the death of a loved one.
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Location
Related Subject Headings
- Palliative Care
- Humans
- Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
- Hospice Care
- Grief
- Gerontology
- Bereavement
- 4205 Nursing
- 4203 Health services and systems
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services