Helping people with learning disabilities make sense of death: Nurses can offer valuable support through the grieving process.

We all react differently to bereavement and that is as true for people with learning disabilities as for anyone else. Yet assumptions are often made. As a result, when a person with a learning disability loses someone close, the reality of death may be denied. Grieving may then stall or never begin....

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Publicado en:Learning Disability Practice Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 6 - 9
Autor principal: Allen, Daniel
Formato: pictorial Journal Article
Publicado: Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The) 10/7/2021
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          Support, Psychosocial
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          Attitude to Death
          Grief
          Bereavement
          Discussion
          Emotions
          Respect
          Nurse-Patient Relations
          Memory
          Disenfranchised Grief
      ab: We all react differently to bereavement and that is as true for people with learning disabilities as for anyone else. Yet assumptions are often made. As a result, when a person with a learning disability loses someone close, the reality of death may be denied. Grieving may then stall or never begin. In a briefing based on the work of Keele University professor of learning disability nursing Sue Read, the bereavement charity Sudden refers to this as 'disenfranchised grief'. This occurs when someone's loss is not recognised and they are left unsupported.
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