Narratives of death: A qualitative study of widowhood in later life

Ageing and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 413-428

  Bennett, Kate Mary ^a,b   Vidal Hall, Steph ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death; Later life; Narrative; Widows

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033846535     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X99007813     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Narrative as expository discourse
2. A longitudinal study of wellbeing in widowed women
3. Widowhood in elderly women: The medium- and long-term effects on mental and physical health
4. Why did he die? The attributions of cause of death amongst women widowed in later life
5. Witness, bereavement and the sense of presence
6. The presence of the dead: An empirical study
7. 'Was life worth living?' The decision to carry on living following spousal bereavement in men in later life
8. Death and social structure
9. The narrative construction of reality
10. The life review: An interpretation of reminiscence in the aged
11. The life review: An unrecognised bonanza
12. Grounded theory
13. The role of anticipatory bereavement in older women's adjustment to widowhood
14. Le veuvage chez les hommes et les femmes ages, une etude exploratoire des significations et des strategies adaptatives
15. Introduction to the special section: Use of bereavement narratives to predict well-being in gay men whose partners died of AIDS - Four theoretical perspectives
16. Anticipatory grief and aged widows and widowers
17. Old age and widowhood: Issues of personal control and independence
18. Side sequences
19. Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience
20. The concept and function of reminiscence: A review of research
21. Life review reminiscence in the elderly: A review of the literature
22. The re-based 1991 population estimates by marital status
23. Legends as narrative response
24. The past as place: Names, stories and the remembered self
25. Confronting a traumatic event: Toward an understanding of inhibition and disease
26. Cognitive, emotional, and language process in disclosure: Physical health and adjustment
27. Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement
28. Life after a death: The experience of bereavement in South Wales
29. So what's the point?
30. 'An intimate loneliness': Evaluating the impact of a child's death on parental self-identity and marital relationships
31. Making stories and taking stories: Methodological reflections on researching grief and marital tension following the death of a child
32. Impact of forewarning on adjustment to widowhood and divorce
33. The personal narrative and Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
34. Semi-structured interviewing and qualitative analysis
35. Appraisal and goal processes as predictors of psychological well-being in bereaved carers
36. Who suffers more? Sex differences in health risks of widowhood
37. The effect of widowhood on psychological wellbeing and social support in the oldest groups of the elderly
38. No regrets: Widows' stories about the last days of their husbands' lives
39. A new model of grief: Bereavement and biography
40. Narratable and unnarratable lives
41. The spectrum of depressive phenomena after spousal bereavement