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Anticipatory Grief in Patients With Cancer

Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2010
Patients and their loved ones often experience anticipatory grief when learning of a diagnosis of advanced or terminal cancer. Anticipatory grief can be a response to threats of loss of ability to function independently, loss of identity, and changes in role definition, which underlie fear of death.
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Anticipatory Grief and Aged Widows and Widowers

Journal of Gerontology, 1975
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the preventive value of anticipatory grief on the medical adjustment of the aged bereaved. Data were collected for 81 surviving widows and widowers 6 mo. after their loss. Sixteen of the bereaved had spouses who died of a chronic illness.
I, Gerber, R, Rusalem, N, Hannon, D, Battin, A, Arkin   +4 more
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The use of guided imagery with anticipatory grief

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 1996
The number of patients and families experiencing the phenomena of anticipatory grief is exploding as the incidence of AIDS increases and the use of life-extending medical technology becomes commonplace. Home care and hospice nurses, most often the healthcare professionals in constant daily contact with dying patients and their loved ones, must identify
B, Turkoski, B, Lance
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Anticipatory Grief: A Psychosocial Concept Reconsidered

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1980
SummaryFormerly anticipatory grief was viewed as a potential coping mechanism for a prospective loss. More recently it has been studied in preventive psychiatry as a determinant of the severity of post-mortem grief. The authors in a critical analysis of methodological and theoretical inconsistencies recommend a reconsideration of the concept within a ...
R, Fulton, D J, Gottesman
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Anticipatory grief: a theoretical challenge

Palliative Medicine, 1994
The theories of loss and grief described by Freud and Bowlby have provided considerable interest in anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is assumed to be akin to post-death grief, but commencing prior to the loss of the loved one. 'Grief work' completed during the anticipatory period is purported to mitigate against abnormal grief reactions after ...
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Anticipatory Grief

Hospice Journal, The, 1991
Factor analysis of an Anticipatory Grief Inventory composed of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors believed to be associated with anticipatory grief, completed by 159 male and female spouses of deceased cancer patients within three months of their loss yielded three interpretable factors: Conjugal Coping, Anticipatory Grief, and Cognitive Coping.
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Anticipatory Grief

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975
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Anticipatory grief work with children

British Journal of Community Health Nursing, 1996
This paper discusses the work undertaken with children who have a significant person in their family in the final stages of a life threatening illness. The paediatric nurse works alongside members of both the primary health care team and the educational team in helping the family to prepare the child through the various stages of illness and ...
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Anticipatory grief and dementia

2009
This paper explores anticipatory grief as the experience of adult children caring for parents with Alzheimer’s, multi-infarct, and Parkinson’s dementias. Interviews were conducted with 10 daughters and two sons whose parents had been institutionalized in a special care unit of a long-term care facility.
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Caregiver Grief and Anticipatory Mourning

Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 2014
Caring for a dying loved one can be difficult and challenging, and grief is often a constant companion. The grief of caregivers is complex and often greater in intensity than the grief experienced after the death.
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