Ears to Listen, Hearts to Understand: Bereavement Adaptation and Its Relationship to Kinship and Gender

The majority of individuals utilize informal support exclusively in bereavement. This qualitative study, conducted at a private, nonprofit metropolitan area hospice from 2011 to 2016, sought to understand what informal types of support the bereaved consider helpful in adapting to loss, and the impac...

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Published inJournal of loss & trauma Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 278 - 297
Main Authors Palmer, William W., Yuen, Francis K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.04.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Bereavement
death
Ears
Gender
Grief
Kinship
loss
Qualitative research
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Summary:The majority of individuals utilize informal support exclusively in bereavement. This qualitative study, conducted at a private, nonprofit metropolitan area hospice from 2011 to 2016, sought to understand what informal types of support the bereaved consider helpful in adapting to loss, and the impact of kinship and gender on this process. The results confirm and challenge existing anecdotal and research knowledge on kinship and grief. Overall, the significance of the data on gender and grief may reside in its statistical insignificance, inferring a greater degree of parallelism in adapting to loss across gender than previously understood.
ISSN:1532-5024
1532-5032
DOI:10.1080/15325024.2019.1675017