Loss in Later Life - Table of Contents

Foreword            U.S. Senator John Breaux
Introduction            Jack D. Gordon

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Part I: Death as a Fact of Later Life

  1.  Age, Death, and Life Review  Robert N. Butler
  2.  Practical Suggestions: Life Review: A Rewarding Activity  Michon Lartigue 
  3.  Death in Life  Kenneth J. Doka
  4.  Voices: Preparing for Departure, Rounded Corners and All  Richard C. Wald
  5.  Stories of the Oldest-Old as They Face Death  Lin Noyes

Part II: Growing Old and Dying

  6.  Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease Lin Noyes
  7.  Communicating with Families during Advanced Illness  William Lamers, Jr.
  8.  Voices: My Maggie Memories  Denise Jones
  9.  Spiritual Care as Death Approaches Late in Life  Paul E. Irion
10.  The Senior Population and the Spectrum of Care  William D. Novelli
11.  Practical Suggestions: Linking the Generations  Ashley Davis Prend
12.  Issues of Loss and Grief in Long-Term Care Facilities  Timothy Keay
13.  Lessons for an Aging Population from the Hospice Model  Stephen R. Connor
14.  Ethical Issues in Hospice Care  Mark H. Waymack
15.  Practical Suggestions: A Final Affairs Fair  Jane Louis
16.  Disenfranchised Grief  Kenneth J. Doka

Part III: Loss and Grief in Later Life

17.  Loss and Transition in Later Life  Phyllis R. Silverman
18.  Effects of Grief on a Survivor's Health  J. Richard Williams
19.  Facing Life Alone: Loss of a Significant Other in Later Life  Dale Lund, Michael S. Caserta
20.  Faces of Grief and Intimacy in Later Life  Brian deVries, Rosemary Blieszner, John Blando
21.  Voices: Adult Orphans  Jack D. Gordon
22.  Voices: A Grandmother’s Grief  Judy Mann
23.  Suicide in Older People  Patrick Arbore
24.  Voices: Reflections on Post-Traumatic Stress Myra MacPherson
25.  Culture and Loss  Hosam K. Kamel, Charles P. Mouton, Deborah R. McKee
26.  Making Sense of Loss  Robert A. Neimeyer
27.  Counseling Later-Life Families  Janice Winchester Nadeau
28.  Expressive Therapies: Piecing Together the Quilt of Life  Virginia Lynn Fry
29.  Rituals and Stories: Creative Approaches to Loss in Later Life  Elaine Tiller

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