Thursday, October 15, 2009
6 items - 6 months!
Bereavement Care. The journal
This journal is now published by Taylor and Francis. It still retains its links with CRUSE. It continues to be reasonably priced and its editor, Colin Murrary Parkes, provides continuity. However, for the fist time it is now also possible to have an online subscription.
http://www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk/ber_care.htm
Macmillan Cancer Support
There are two booklets available from Macmillan Cancer Support for care homes that would like to provide some training for their staff in bereavement care. They can either be ordered in print form or are available for download free of charge:
http://be.macmillan.org.uk/be/s-206-learning-resources-and-courses.aspx
If there is anything I can do….
Doughty Caroline
White Ladder Press 2007
This is written for those who would like to help someone who has been recently bereaved. It is particularly aimed at young parents with children and provides many concrete suggestions on how one might be able to them. The author is herself an expert as she has had to live through this experience and she has done so with the help of many people who have also been widowed. She met many of them through the WAY foundation, a support group for people widowed under 50. I think this is a refreshing book as it closely involves both the bereaved and those who have helped them.
http://www.wayfoundation.org.uk/index.htm
National Council for Palliative Care
National survey of patient activity data for specialist palliative care services.
MDS full report for the year 2007-2008.
NCPC (Dec) 2008
This is an annual publication by the National Council for Palliative Care and collates information on palliative care services in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
There is a section in this document on bereavement services. It states that 278 bereavement services were listed in the Hospice Directory in this area in 2008. Data was received from 171 services. The type of contact was given by 56% services and 70% of contacts were either in the home, or as individual counselling. The main staff member for each of the contacts was given by half of all services and this showed that nearly half of all contacts were with a social worker or counsellor, 5% with a CNS and a third with a volunteer. A table on the services is also provided. This shows the actual and the mean number of clients seen, the number of contacts, contacts per client, the contact type, the staff type for each contact (eg social worker, clinical nurse specialist or volunteer) and the number of telephone calls that had been noted.
Financial Implications of Death of a Partner
by Corden, A., Hirst, M. and Nice, K.
Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, 2008
This research report investigates the economic and financial consequences of bereavement for a surviving spouse or partner and their household, using a mixed methods, prospective design. The study involves a quantitative element based on longitudinal analysis of the British Household Panel Survey, and a qualitative element comprising personal interviews with people at different life stages whose partner has died.
http://php.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/1148/
Evaluation of a bereavement evening service in a London hospice
Heal, Rosanna, Hartley Nigel.
Abstracts of the 11th Congress of the EAPC, Vienna 2009. p62.
Bereaved relatives are invited by a London hospice to attend an evening event about 3 months after the death of a patient. This consists of a) a talk by a member of staff at the hospice on common responses to bereavement b) group discussion.
The events take place each month and all those who attended the meetings over a 5 months period (n=105) and all those who had been invited to the meetings but did not attend (n=436) were asked to complete a questionnaire.
Overall the bereavement evenings were valued by respondents who participated and even those who did not attend appreciated being invited, seeing it as further evidence of the care extended to them by the hospice.
(The book by Caroline Doughty is available from the bookshop at St Christopher’s Hospice and the full report of the MDS data is in the library at St Christopher’s Hospice. A fuller abstract by Rosanna Heal is also available from the library. Contact me if you would like further details or have any other literature queries regarding bereavement. d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk or ph: 020 8768 4660)
This journal is now published by Taylor and Francis. It still retains its links with CRUSE. It continues to be reasonably priced and its editor, Colin Murrary Parkes, provides continuity. However, for the fist time it is now also possible to have an online subscription.
http://www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk/ber_care.htm
Macmillan Cancer Support
There are two booklets available from Macmillan Cancer Support for care homes that would like to provide some training for their staff in bereavement care. They can either be ordered in print form or are available for download free of charge:
http://be.macmillan.org.uk/be/s-206-learning-resources-and-courses.aspx
If there is anything I can do….
Doughty Caroline
White Ladder Press 2007
This is written for those who would like to help someone who has been recently bereaved. It is particularly aimed at young parents with children and provides many concrete suggestions on how one might be able to them. The author is herself an expert as she has had to live through this experience and she has done so with the help of many people who have also been widowed. She met many of them through the WAY foundation, a support group for people widowed under 50. I think this is a refreshing book as it closely involves both the bereaved and those who have helped them.
http://www.wayfoundation.org.uk/index.htm
National Council for Palliative Care
National survey of patient activity data for specialist palliative care services.
MDS full report for the year 2007-2008.
NCPC (Dec) 2008
This is an annual publication by the National Council for Palliative Care and collates information on palliative care services in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
There is a section in this document on bereavement services. It states that 278 bereavement services were listed in the Hospice Directory in this area in 2008. Data was received from 171 services. The type of contact was given by 56% services and 70% of contacts were either in the home, or as individual counselling. The main staff member for each of the contacts was given by half of all services and this showed that nearly half of all contacts were with a social worker or counsellor, 5% with a CNS and a third with a volunteer. A table on the services is also provided. This shows the actual and the mean number of clients seen, the number of contacts, contacts per client, the contact type, the staff type for each contact (eg social worker, clinical nurse specialist or volunteer) and the number of telephone calls that had been noted.
Financial Implications of Death of a Partner
by Corden, A., Hirst, M. and Nice, K.
Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, 2008
This research report investigates the economic and financial consequences of bereavement for a surviving spouse or partner and their household, using a mixed methods, prospective design. The study involves a quantitative element based on longitudinal analysis of the British Household Panel Survey, and a qualitative element comprising personal interviews with people at different life stages whose partner has died.
http://php.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/1148/
Evaluation of a bereavement evening service in a London hospice
Heal, Rosanna, Hartley Nigel.
Abstracts of the 11th Congress of the EAPC, Vienna 2009. p62.
Bereaved relatives are invited by a London hospice to attend an evening event about 3 months after the death of a patient. This consists of a) a talk by a member of staff at the hospice on common responses to bereavement b) group discussion.
The events take place each month and all those who attended the meetings over a 5 months period (n=105) and all those who had been invited to the meetings but did not attend (n=436) were asked to complete a questionnaire.
Overall the bereavement evenings were valued by respondents who participated and even those who did not attend appreciated being invited, seeing it as further evidence of the care extended to them by the hospice.
(The book by Caroline Doughty is available from the bookshop at St Christopher’s Hospice and the full report of the MDS data is in the library at St Christopher’s Hospice. A fuller abstract by Rosanna Heal is also available from the library. Contact me if you would like further details or have any other literature queries regarding bereavement. d.brady@stchristophers.org.uk or ph: 020 8768 4660)
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