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'They're Going to Die at Some Point, but We're all Going to Die' - A Qualitative Exploration of Bereavement in Later Life.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.
- "From my life, she will never be gone, even though she is no longer here" - a single case interpretative phenomenological analysis on spousal loss and resilience.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- Age Melancholy of Older Mizrahi Women Residing in Tel Aviv as a Social Loss: Exploring Intersections of Health and Social Support in an Ethnographic Study.Qualitative health research · 2025Article
- Farewell Ceremonies: How Older People Practice Death and Bereavement.Human studies · 2025Article
- Qualitative Bereavement Experiences and Support in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Omega · 2024Article
- "They want you to know who they really are inside of the old visage"-biographical storytelling as a methodological tool to explore emotional challenges in old age.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
This article reports on a qualitative study to investigate what bereavement means to older people. Drawing upon 80 in-depth interviews collected from eight British and Australian retirement communities, our study revealed that facing bereavement while ageing includes experiences of losing both others and the wholeness of the self. Core themes identified how the experience of losing others can be compounded by ageing-related challenges, undermining older people's defence from bereavement and frustrating their fundamental meaning and being. The older people's dynamic responses were also captured, highlighting the importance of supporting their agency to deal with the deeper pain of loss. By extending the concept of bereavement in later life, we also called for a more grief literate culture to mitigate the multifaceted and often deeper distresses of bereavement that older people may face alongside ageing.
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