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A survey of grief and bereavement in nursing homes
— the importance of hospice grief and bereavement for the end-stage Alzheimer's disease patient and family | | Author(s) | Kathleen Murphy, Patricia Hanrahan, Daniel Luchins |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 9, September 1997 |
| Pages | pp 1104-1107 |
| Keywords | Bereavement ; Family care ; Dementia ; Terminal care ; Nursing homes ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 126 nursing homes in Michigan were asked questions regarding their grief and bereavement services, services routinely offered by licensed hospice agencies in the US. 55% of the homes sent sympathy cards after a patient's death. 99% did not provide information to the family or primary caregiver on the grieving process or bereavement after a death; and none sent a letter informing them of local, community, or on-site bereavement support group meetings. 66% were not able to offer a referral to a counselling or psychiatric professional when bereavement intervention was deemed appropriate. 54% of homes usually went to the funeral home or the funeral of a patient who died in their care. 98% of the nursing homes neither visited, made phone calls, nor provided written communication (i.e., bereavement newsletter) to the family members after a patient's death. This study demonstrated few grief and bereavement services for families of patients in long-term care homes. Because grief and bereavement is part of the career of most Alzheimer's disease (AD) caregivers, access to Medicare hospice benefit should be encouraged for families of those with end-stage AD resident in nursing homes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981127207 A |
| Classmark | DW: P6:SJ: EA: LV: LHB: 3F: 7T |
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