My parents start the day by reading the obituaries and many older adults do the same. They think about their own mortality while grieving the death of family, friends and the community at large.
Older adults experience grief much the same as younger and middle-aged adults. However, due to their age and life experience, many factors can impact their grief reaction.
The natural process of aging includes many losses. These include loss of physical strength and endurance, loss of independence, loss of mobility and loss of youth and beauty. Older adults may have to give up their role in the family and subsequently, family dynamics change.
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About Me
- The Bereavement Center
- Northern Ohio
- My name is Diane Snyder Cowan and I am the director of The Bereavement Center, a program of Hospice of the Western Reserve. Our mission is to assist the bereaved as they move through the grief process by providing support groups, education and training, consultation, bereavement counseling, and crisis response to the bereaved and those who work with them.