- Title
- Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement : results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults
- Creator
- Engel, Lidia; Brijnath, Bianca; Chong, Terence; Hills, Danny; Hjorth, Larissa; Loi, Samantha; Majmudar, Ishani; Mihalopoulos, Cathrine; Gerber, Katrin
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/194049
- Identifier
- vital:18298
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2022.2155887
- Identifier
- ISSN:0748-1187 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Older people experience bereavements more often than any other age group. National survey data collected across Australia from 633 bereaved adults aged 65+ years showed that 21% met the criteria for prolonged grief. Their quality of life was significantly lower and loneliness significantly higher compared to older people in the general population. Risk factors for the low quality of life and high loneliness post-bereavement included being female, experiencing the death of a partner, and being the full-time carer of the deceased. Time since bereavement, expectedness, and cause of death were not significantly associated with quality of life and loneliness. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Death Studies Vol. 47, no. 9 (2023), p. 994-1005
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
- Subject
- 4410 Sociology; 5203 Clinical and health psychology; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This research was funded by the Melbourne Aging Research Collaboration.
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