Grieving a loss: the lived experience for elders residing in an institution.
Grieving a loss is a profound and universal human experience. This phenomenological-hermeneutic study was an inquiry into the lived experience of grieving a loss. The nursing perspective was Parse's human becoming theory. Participants were 10 elderly persons residing in a long-term care facility. The study finding specifies the structure of the lived experience of grieving a loss as aching solitude amid enduring cherished affiliations, as serene acquiescence arises with sorrowful curtailments. Findings are discussed in relation to the guiding theoretical perspective and related literature. Recommendations for additional research and insights for practice are presented.
School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada.
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Pilkington
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002170:Canada; D003643:Death; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006304:Health Status; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D008016:Life Change Events; D008132:Loneliness / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012649:Self Concept; D012660:Semantics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires