Aging America : Coping with Loss, Dying, and Death in Later Life

by Kenneth J. Doka (Editor)

Other authorsAmy S. Tucci (Editor), Marian Grant (Foreword)
Paper Book, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

IBMC Library - HQ 1064 U5 D15 - Shlvd w/ Pastoral Care

Publication

Washington, DC : Hospice Foundation of America

ISBN

9781893349230

Local notes

CONTENTS:
Forward / Marian Grant
Part I: Death in later life: Facing the Baby Boom
Death in life: a developmental perspective on loss in later life / Kenneth J. Doka
Practice tips: strategies for assisting older individuals in finding meaning / Kenneth J. Doka
Diversity and grief: losses in life contexts / Brian de Vries
Aging: redeeming the destiny we were born to fulfill / Deborah Grassman
Ethical issues facing older adults / David M. Price
Part II: dying in later life
The slow death of dementia / Katherine P. Supiano
Practice tips: supporting elderly veterans at the end of life / Deborah grassman
The hospice connection: helping elders access hospice care / Samira K. Beckwith
Dying in institutional care / Eileen R. Chichin
Part III: Grief in later life
Surviving the death of a spouse: the impact on widows and widowers / Howard Robin Winokuer
Voices: a spouse's death / Ced Currin
An unexpected loss: the loss of an adult child / Evgenia Milman and Robert a Neimeyer
Voices: in memory of my daughter and the platitudes I hate / Myra MacPherson
Disenfranchised grief in later life / Kenneth J. Doka
Voices: turning trauma, grief, and pain into positive action / Dana and Linda O'Brien
Grieving styles: a later life perspective / Terry L. Martin and Kenneth J. Doka
Suicide among the elderly / Judith Stillion
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