Date of this Version
10-2011
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Approximately 160,000 grandparents experience the death of a grandchild each year; this represents a permanent, irrevocable loss for the grandparent resulting in physical and emotional responses. Grandparents who lose a grandchild experience increased alcohol and drug use, thoughts of suicide, and pain for their adult child who is also grieving. Supportive resources available to grieving grandparents, the effects of the grandchild’s death on the grandparent-parent relationship and the influence of race/ethnicity on grandparent grieving are discussed. Despite about 40,000 child and infant deaths each year, knowledge about grandparent health and functioning following the death of a grandchild is limited.
Recommended Citation
Youngblut, JoAnne M.; Brooten, Dorothy; Blais, Kathleen; Hanna, Jean; and Niyonsenga, Theophile, "Grandparent Health & Functioning after a Grandchild’s Death" (2011). Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences. 52.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cnhs_fac/52
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Author's Accepted Manuscript
The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at J Pediatr Nurs