| Title | Impact of elderly mother's death on middle age daughters. | | Author(s) | Moss MS, Moss SZ, Rubinstein R, Resch N | | Institution | Philadelphia Geriatric Center, Pennsylvania. | | Source | Int J Aging Hum Dev 1993; 37(1):1-22. | | MeSH | Adaptation, Psychological
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging
Attitude to Death
Bereavement
Caregivers
Death, Sudden
Female
Grief
Homes for the Aged
Humans
Maternal Deprivation
Middle Aged
Mother-Child Relations
Nursing Homes
Somatoform Disorders
| | Abstract | Daughters' responses to an elderly mother's death are found to be multidimensional. In the first six months of bereavement many daughters experience themes of both holding on and letting go. Measured were depression, grief, somatic reactions, as well as impact on the sense of self, degree of acceptance of the death, and ways in which the tie with the mother endures. Though many of these reactions are intercorrelated, they are differentially associated with characteristics of the daughter, mother, and the quality of their relationship. Relatively sudden deaths were associated with more intense grief, less acceptance, and more thoughts of reunion than deaths that occurred in a nursing home. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 8375914 |
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