Life After A Death : A Study of the Elderly Widowed (Paperback)

Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, 2. Caring for the spouse who died, 3. Information and discussion about the death, 4. Practical needs and circumstances in the early months of widowhood, 5. Health and the role of the general practitioner, 6. General practitioners' knowledge, perception, attitudes, and characteristics, 7. Emotional adjustment, loneliness, and their concomitants, 8. Isolation and the role of relatives and friends, 9. The impact on the familiars, 10. What can be done?, Appendices, Name index, Subject index