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Direct linkJacobsen, Juliet C.; Zhang, Baohui; Block, Susan D.; Maciejewski, Paul K.; Prigerson, Holly G. – Death Studies, 2010
Several studies have shown that the symptoms of grief are different from symptoms of depression among bereaved family members. This study is an attempt to replicate this finding among advanced cancer patients and examine clinical correlates of patient grief and depression. Analyses were conducted on data from interviews with 123 advanced cancer…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Coping, Religion, Health Services
Charles-Edwards, David – Death Studies, 2009
How people respond at work may have a critical part to play in how bereaved or terminally ill colleagues manage their grief and their lives. Although counselors, human resources, occupational health staff, and others may have an important back-up role to play, pivotal support needs to come from line managers, colleagues, and, where they exist,…
Descriptors: Grief, Occupational Safety and Health, Unions, Human Resources
Georges, Jean-Jacques; Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D.; Muller, Martien T.; van der Wal, Gerrit; van der Heide, Agnes; van der Maas, Paul J. – Death Studies, 2007
This study used retrospective interviews with 87 relatives to describe the experiences of patients who died by euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (EAS) in the Netherlands. Most of the patients suffered from cancer (85%). The relatives were most often a partner (63%) or a child (28%) of the patient. Before explicitly requesting EAS most…
Descriptors: Patients, Terminal Illness, Experience, Suicide
Waldrop, Deborah P.; Rinfrette, Elaine S. – Death Studies, 2009
Hospice care is available for 6 months before death but the length of use varies widely, suggesting that there are different perspectives on the appropriate timing for this transition. This qualitative study explored hospice professionals' views on the appropriate timing for and communication about hospice. Ethnography of team meetings informed…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Allied Health Personnel, Physicians, Attitudes
Imagining the Alternatives to Life Prolonging Treatments: Elders' Beliefs about the Dying Experience
Winter, Laraine; Parker, Barbara; Schneider, Melissa – Death Studies, 2007
Deciding for or against a life-prolonging treatment represents a choice between prolonged life and death. When the death alternative is not described, individuals must supply their own assumptions. How do people imagine the experience of dying? The authors asked 40 elderly people open-ended questions about dying without 4 common life-prolonging…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Patients, Terminal Illness, Death
Black, Kathy – Death Studies, 2007
The study surveyed 135 health care professionals (74 nurses, 32 physicians, and 29 social workers) to examine their personal death attitudes and experiences in relation to their reported advance directive communication practice behavior. Negative correlations were found between collaborating with other health care professionals regarding the…
Descriptors: Physicians, Terminal Illness, Social Work, Health Services
