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No regrets
— widows' stories about the last days of their husbands' lives | | Author(s) | Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 59-72 |
| Keywords | Older women ; Widows ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Death ; Husbands ; Canada. |
| Annotation | In-depth, narrative interviews with 28 Canadian women over 50 widowed in the previous five years revealed their experiences of widowhood and their husbands' deaths. Most told their husbands' death stories without being asked to. There were three major parts to these death stories: finding out their husbands were dying; taking care of their husbands while coming to terms with the fact of their impending deaths; and the period immediately before and at the actual time of death. These stories appear to give meaning and comfort to widows as they recount them. They provide bridges or transition experiences through which women come to understand their own journey from wife to widow. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000120211 A |
| Classmark | BD: SP: DB: CW: SNA: 7S |
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