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....
| Published in: | Learning Disability Practice Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 6 - 9 |
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| Format: | pictorial Journal Article |
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Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom (The)
10/7/2021
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |