I am a PhD nursing student and a certified adult gerontology nurse practitioner. I have worked as a registered nurse in oncology and as a research assistant in geriatric nursing. I currently hold a deep passion for family caregivers of hospice patients.
Anticipating the loved one’s death is tragic and deep sorrow for family caregivers. Anticipatory grief has been used and studied since 1940s (Lindemann, 1944). There are many terms related to it: bereavement, preloss grief, postloss grief, complicated grief, predeath loss, future loss, pending loss, preparatory grief, progressive loss, impending death, proplonged grief, prepararation at the end of life, and forewarning of death in hospice and palliative care (Moon, 2016). No concept analysis
Anticipating the loved one’s death is tragic and deep sorrow for family caregivers. Anticipatory grief has been used and studied since 1940s (Lindemann, 1944). There are many terms related to it: bereavement, preloss grief, postloss grief, complicated grief, predeath loss, future loss, pending loss, preparatory grief, progressive loss, impending death, proplonged grief, prepararation at the end of life, and forewarning of death in hospice and palliative care (Moon, 2016). No concept analysis