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Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers
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The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to continue spreading widely across the globe throughout 2020. To mitigate the devastating impact of COVID-19, social distancing and visitor restrictions in health care facilities have been widely implemented. Such policies and practices, along with the direct impact of the spread of COVID-19, complicate issues of grief that are relevant to medical providers. We describe the relationship of the COVID-19 pandemic to anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, and complicated grief for individuals, families, and their providers. Furthermore, we provide discussion regarding countering this grief through communication, advance care planning, and self-care practices. We provide resources for health care providers, in addition to calling on palliative care providers to consider their own role as a resource to other specialties during this public health emergency.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wallace, C. L., Wladkowski, S. P., Gibson, A., & White, P.
- Affiliations
- Saint Louis University (US)
- Eastern Michigan University (US)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wallace, Cara L.
- Venue
- Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-07
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- e70-e76
- ISSN
- 0885-3924 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7153515
- OpenAlex
- W3016258882
- Cited by
- 635
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 103 · 2022: 140 · 2021: 173 · 2020: 112
- FWCI
- 52.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, grief, palliative care providers, anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, complicated grief, advance care planning, self-care, communication, social distancing, visitor restrictions, healthcare workers
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Communication, Grief, Humans, Palliative Care, Pneumonia, Viral, Self Care, Coronavirus Infections, Advance Care Planning, Pandemics
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