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The difficult discussion on the deactivation of implantable cardioverter devices at the end of life: a systematic review

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 733-760, April 2025.
Abstract Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reliably prevent death due to life‐threatening arrhythmias; this may become less relevant in people with more severe heart failure who are reaching the end of life (EOL). This review aimed to explore the ICD deactivation process and identify ethical issues, especially around the initiation of ...
Siobhan C. Murray   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life After Losing an Adult Child to a Drug Overdose: A Kawa Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Limited research is available to occupational therapy practitioners focusing on parents’ abilities to cope with the loss of an adult child to a drug overdose.
De Brun, Jessica Nicole   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Empathy, Perceived Injustice and Solidarity‐Based Action: Observer Responses to Civilian Suffering in Military Conflicts

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global conflicts intensify, observers without direct conflict experience are increasingly exposed to war‐related suffering through media coverage, yet little is known about how such exposure shapes emotional and behavioural responses or how support for different affected civilian groups is distributed.
Islam Borinca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religion's Positive Relationship with the Bereavement Process [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
As a Modern Orthodox Jew I have been acculturated into a society which has many laws regarding mourning and bereavement for both the relatives of the deceased and the community at large.
Irwin, Aviva
core   +2 more sources

Communication regarding sudden unexpected death in epilepsy to people with epilepsy and their caregivers: A scoping review from the ILAE Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Task Force

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Discussing sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is difficult and sensitive for health care providers (HCPs), people with epilepsy (PwE), and caregivers. This scoping review examines the literature on SUDEP communication, focusing on need, timing, content, methods, facilitators, barriers, and outcomes. We performed a thematic analysis to
Amir Aschner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taiwanese family members’ bereavement experience following an expected death: a systematic review and narrative synthesis

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care
Background Bereavement experience is shaped by cultural and social contexts. No systematically constructed reviews were identified to explore the bereavement experience for people who are influenced by Chinese culture valuing filial piety and mutual ...
Hui-Ju Liang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pedagogical Techniques that Provide Educational Value to Social Work Students through Bereavement Academics and Empathetic Advancements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The lack of empathy in college students has been documented and empathy levels are reported to have declined over recent years. College student bereavement has not been well-researched (Balk, 2008) but the lack of declining college student empathy has ...
Williamson-Ashe, Sandra Renea
core   +1 more source

Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
wiley   +1 more source

‘We do it to keep him alive’: bereaved individuals’ experiences of online suicide memorials and continuing bonds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper presents draws on interviews with individuals who have experience of creating, maintaining and utilising Facebook sites in memory of a loved one who has died by suicide.
Bailey, Louis, Bell, Jo, Kennedy, David
core   +2 more sources

Maternal and neonatal outcomes in Gaza amid armed hostilities in 2025

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study documents facility‐based maternal, obstetric, and neonatal outcomes and associated conflict‐related exposures and living conditions among pregnancy‐related encounters at Al‐Helou Maternity Hospital in Gaza from late April to early September 2025, with a small number of additional encounters recorded at Al‐Shifa Medical ...
Shaymaa Abuhaiba   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

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