Ann Bowling, Ann Cartwright

Life After A Death

A Study of the Elderly Widowed

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1982, this title presents the results of a study of the experiences and attitudes of over 350 elderly widowed men and women, their GPs, relatives, friends, and neighbours, and considers the implications of the help the widowed received, or failed to receive, from those it was most likely that they would turn for support.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781032715001
• ISBN-10: 1032715006
• Artikelnr.: 70255537

Autorenporträt

Ann Bowling and Ann Cartwright

Inhaltsangabe

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