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- Title
Sorg har ingen alder.
- Authors
Hjørnet, Tine Eykens
- Abstract
The two-track model of bereavement indicates that, contrary to earlier assumptions, grief does not proceed in stages, but along two parallel tracks. The loss-oriented (retrospective) track and the restorative (prospective) track. The natural impact of grief and loss is characterised by the bereaved person alternating dynamically between the two tracks. Coming to terms with loss is an individual process, and complicated grief or persistent complex bereavement disorder may arise when the bereaved person is locked on one track. This is imperative for the nurse and other healthcare professionals to be aware of in caring for the bereaved in order to be able to provide support and intervene in the presence of complicated grief. The focus of the article is Asta, who has just lost her life partner and is now showing signs of incipient complicated grief. At the same time, the article directs focus at elderly persons and bereavement, and persistent myths about how older people should grieve. Grief has no age, so why are the bereaved commonly asked about the age of the deceased loved-one? It may be a natural course of events for elderly persons to lose a life partner, but it does not make their grief any less.
- Publication
Danish Journal of Nursing / Sygeplejersken, 2015, Vol 115, Issue 14, p76
- ISSN
0106-8350
- Publication type
Article