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| The metaphor of "family" in staff communication about dying and death | | Author(s) | Miriam S Moss, Sidney Z Moss, Robert L Rubinstein |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 5, September 2003 |
| Pages | pp S290-S296 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Death ; Dying ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Attitude ; Care home staff ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Caregiving staff need to have a way of making sense of nursing home residents' deaths. As part of a multi-site ethnographic study of bereavement in long-term care, the authors analysed themes in audio transcribed in-depth interviews with 26 hands-on caregiving staff members (mostly nurses' aides) in two religiously and culturally diverse nursing homes (one Jewish, the other Catholic). A theme of family metaphor emerged as staff members spoke of family-like thoughts, feelings and behaviours toward long-term residents. Staff members spontaneously told stories of deaths in their own families, and described how the meanings of resident deaths and family deaths were interrelated. The family metaphor provides cultural scripts that enable staff to overcome barriers in the expression of grief. The family metaphor structures the meaning for staff of death and bereavement, and it provides a bridge between their work and personal experiences. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406222 A |
| Classmark | CW: CX: KX: LHB: DP: QRM: 3DP: 7T |
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