Caring for bereaved family members during the COVID-19 pandemic: before and after the death of a patient
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Bereavement care is considered an integral component of quality end-of-life care endorsed by the palliative care movement. However, few hospitals and health care institutions offer universal bereavement care to all families of patients who die. The current coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has highlighted this gap and created a sense of urgency, from a public health perspective, for institutions to provide support to bereaved family members. In this article, drawing on the palliative care and bereavement literature, we offer suggestions about how to incorporate palliative care tools and psychological strategies into bereavement care for families during this pandemic.
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Due to constant losses, such as not being able to say goodbye or being limited in rituals, this can lead to complicated grief, characterized by intense emotional discomfort, which can generate disability in daily functioning.
“In addition to this, due to the constant losses that people face, such as not being able to say goodbye to their loved ones or being limited to performing traditional social and cultural rituals (Goveas and Shear, 2020; Morris et al., 2020), this can lead to a complicated grief, characterized by intense emotional discomfort, which in turn could generate a disability in people's daily functioning,”
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- Authors
- Morris, S. E., Moment, A., & Thomas, J. D.
- Affiliations
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Morris, Sue E.
- Venue
- Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-08
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- e70-e74
- ISSN
- 0885-3924 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7204689
- OpenAlex
- W3023343931
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 17
- FWCI
- 14.28
- 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
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Keywords
- bereavement support, COVID-19 pandemic, family caregivers, end-of-life care, palliative care, psychological strategies
- MeSH terms
- COVID-19, Bereavement, Family, Humans, Palliative Care, Pneumonia, Viral, Terminal Care, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics
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