Life After A Death: A Study of the Elderly Widowed

by Ann Bowling, Ann Cartwright

Overview

Life After A Death presents the results of a study of the experiences and attitudes of over 350 elderly widowed men and women, their general practitioners, and their relatives, friends, and neighbours, and considers the implications of the help the widowed received, or failed to receive, from those to whom it was most likely that they would turn for support. The authors’ identification and description of the emotional and practical day-to-day needs of the widowed, and their recommendations about the potential role of the general practitioner and voluntary and social services, should be considered by all those concerned to alleviate the difficulties of the widowed, and to help them to live a better ‘life after a death’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032715001
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2024
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Aging
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ann Bowling and Ann Cartwright

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Caring for the spouse who died, 3. Information and discussion about the death, 4. Practical needs and circumstances in the early months of widowhood, 5. Health and the role of the general practitioner, 6. General practitioners' knowledge, perception, attitudes, and characteristics, 7. Emotional adjustment, loneliness, and their concomitants, 8. Isolation and the role of relatives and friends, 9. The impact on the familiars, 10. What can be done?, Appendices, Name index, Subject index