Grief or loss can cause change -- force evolution, if you will, into the human ability for personal growth and self-actualization. Certainly grief is a human emotion; as much a part of us (Kubler-Ross, 2009)
Grief or loss can cause change -- force evolution, if you will, into the human ability for personal growth and self-actualization. Certainly grief is a human emotion; as much a part of us (Kubler-Ross, 2009)
We can think of it as a two way continuum -- the stronger the circumstances regarding the death coupled with the lack of preparation for the death, the stronger the complicated grief symptoms will be. Further, while there are some inconsistencies present on the definition and robust nature of complicated grief, there is a direct relationship to the internal manifestation of symptoms and those that are clinically interdependent (Lobb, Kristjanson, Aoun, Monterosso, Halkett and Davies, 2010)
It is this sense of hope, this feeling that there may still be something that can be done for the patient that is the focus of alternative theories regarding the efficacy of anticipatory grief as a positive aspect of caregiving. Some, of course, view the idea of dealing with as many of the emotions prior to death as positive -- it allows greater closure, greater sharing, and even at times can be more comforting to both caregiver and patient (Moorey, 1995, 92-6)
). In fact, the psychological research suggests that complicated grief tends to activate neurons in the brain's reward centers, possible enhancing memories with addiction-like properties and heightening the acivity in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain associated with rewards (O'Connor, Wellisch, Standon, et al
However, other research shows that in some cases anticipatory death prolongs the grief experience; in some individuals it has the effect of mitigating the overall process once the patient has died. But in others, the feelings of hope, of a miracle cure, of something new in medical science that will change the outcome, becomes so strong that there is far more anger and denial if a cure is not forthcoming (Rando, 2000)
Following the actual death, caregiver grief usually becomes sustained -- overall distress is often diminished, but symptoms continue long beyond what pscyhologists see as normal griefing time. The caregiver had been so used to almost a 24-7 model that they, themselves felt that they no longer had a purpose (Waldrop, 2007)
¶ … caregivers face when it comes to differentiating between dementia, delirium, and depression due to overlap of depression and delirium in older people. Some symptoms that accompany depression are also pronounced in dementia (Peacock, Hopton, Featherstone & Jill, 2012)
To that end, the society believes that it is actually helping people by relieving them of memories and emotions, for the simple fact that many of them are associated with pain. However, a close examination of this book reveals that ultimately, this society is only masking what in fact are important aspects of human life through a beneficent conception of "sameness" (Ray)
The 92-couple sample evaluated pairs with men having an age range of 19-78 and women having an age range from 20-72. Instruments used included the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, which measured emotional skills using a seven-item scale addressing ability to access/identify personal emotions such as "I have feelings that I can't quite identify" (Cordova et al
"Health literacy" is an important phrase when it comes to a nurse's job vis-a-vis training family members to be good caregivers in the home. Health literacy is the "…degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information" (Nigolian, et al
They simply do not have the capacity to form impressions or to process information regarding sociality that younger persons might have. So while "post-formal thinking has its roots in young adulthood" (Cavanaugh, Blanchard-Fields, 2014, p