Grief is not about building a new life without the person you’ve lost but about finding new ways of incorporating them into your ongoing reality.
- Lecturer in Sociology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool
Early experiences with a favourite star can become deeply embedded in a person’s identity, acting as enduring sources of comfort, inspiration, and self-expression.
Afastamento entre jovens e idosos na sociedade moderna provoca conflitos geracionais que podem ser atenuados com projetos de interação intergeracional
Anxiety about ageing is also often a fear of the future.
More than half our interviewees described feelings of profound anguish as long COVID forced them to doubt their identity and question their life purpose
Deep-seated structural issues in the NHS affect all patients, however they particularly impact people with long COVID who are trying to both understand a complex new illness and access healthcare.
When someone dies young, the grieving process can be more complicated.
Research shows people can undergo transformational experiences when they grieve.
Over 130 hours of conversations with older people reveal the truth of what it’s like to get old and how to cope with loneliness.
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