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Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene; Finlayson, Janet; Bernal, Jane; Taggart, Laurence; Lam, Claire Kar Kei; Todd, Stuart – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Illness and death are part of life for everyone, including people with intellectual disabilities. This study investigated the extent to which staff communicate about death with people with intellectual disability facing terminal illness or bereavement. Method: Staff who support people with intellectual disability in the UK (n = 690)…
Descriptors: Death, Adults, Terminal Illness, Grief
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Linn, Margaret W.; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Assessed effects of nursing home staff training in care for the dying on quality of life of 306 terminally ill patients in 5 pairs of matched nursing homes assigned randomly to trained and not trained staff groups. Patients in trained homes had less depression and greater satisfaction with care than patients in control homes at 1 and 3 months.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Performance, Counselor Training