Analysis of Bereavement Support Systems in Healthcare

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SUPPORTING SIGNIFICANT LIFE EVENTS

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
LO1) Effects of significant life events on people and their social life............................................3
1.1) Significant life events impact on individuals........................................................................3
1.2) Analysis of life event significant that occurred in one member...........................................4
1.3) Analysis of the effect of one individual's experience of life events on the other health care
and social......................................................................................................................................5
LO2) Available support for the experienced people insignificant life events.................................6
2.1) Analysis the Effective policies and procedure of organization to support the affected
people...........................................................................................................................................6
2.2) Social networks support to the life event experienced individuals.....................................6
2.3) Analysis of the support of the external sources to the affected people................................7
LO3) Analysis to the response of the social and health care for supporting the individuals..........8
3.1) Analysis of the responded organization for supporting the needed people........................8
3.2) Personal contribution to supporting the individuals.............................................................9
3.3) Recommendation to improve the available support.............................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference list.................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
Significant life events are the situation which occurs in the life of the people when they lose their
loved ones or personal belongings. In the present study, the discussion is based on the family
who had lost their daughter due to a deadly disease named leukemia. Further discussion has been
done on the impact of this event on the individual life as well as their social lives. The entire
study has been focused on the support provided to the family who has been suffering for the loss
and grief. Kubler model of grief has been implied such that family sorrow and the impact of
losing their loved one can be understood. Moreover, recommendations are given such the life of
the individuals can be supported when such sad situations occur in anyone's life.
Thesis statement- Support of health care organizations, society and family is needed in a time of
significant events to improve the social as well as personal lives.
Discussion
LO1) Effects of significant life events on people and their social life
1.1) Significant life events impact on individuals
People face a tough time and suffer from unbearable pain in their lives when they lost their dear
ones or something special; these events are called as Bereavement. However, many people face
these kinds of misfortune changes their mood of life. As stated by McKissock (2017), the father
and mother Tom and Sue also faced this situation after they lost their beloved daughter. As per
the case study, it has been stated that the father has overcome the sorrow but the mother is not
able to do so. This event has impacted the family in a negative way like grief, stress, and
depression.
This huge loss has badly affected Jill’s mother’s personal life as well as in her behavior also. She
became more protective of his son. The death of Jill not only affected Sue physically but also her
social life. The loss has made her depressed and guilty that she is not able to do any household
work in a proper way (Ricker et al. 2018). She was working part-time in a company earlier but
left her work during the treatment procedure. The manager of Sue offered her flexible working

hours; however, she did not join the office. However, to overcome such a situation the
individuals needs support from family and society as well as support from some healthcare
organizations.
The five steps of the Kubler Grief model can explain the sorrow and the pain of the mother in the
case study. The denial stage explains that the mother has become shocked after diagnosis of
cancer which made her fear of losing her daughter. As mentioned by Bregman (2017), the anger
shows that the mother has blamed herself for notable save her child from the deathly disease.
The mother has bargained with the gods to take herself instead of taking the life of her 10 years
old daughter. The level of depression portrays the helpless of Sue for not able to do anything for
saving her child. The acceptance shows that the mother is not able to accept the lost and not able
to move on in her life after losing her kid (Liu and Zhang, 2018).
1.2) Analysis of life event significant that occurred in one member
The person who is experiencing the Bereavement gets several kinds of response from their
family, loved ones and friends and from society as well. However, as opined by Neville et al.
(2019), when someone loses their family member, then in that scenario the other family member
becomes the moral support for each other to overcome from lost. Therefore, in the case study,
Tom has become the moral support of his wife for encouraging her to move on in her life with
the help of counseling. In order to help each other in the family, communication must be clear
and positive among them.
The other members in the family who plays the role professionals such as nurses, doctors, care
from society in that person's life who experienced life events recently. As per the case study, the
mother who has lost her 10-year-old child due to leukemia needs care and love from her son and
husband. There are various types can be provided with the help of different group response
(Ruscio et al. 2015).
Associates:
In this group, several types of people are attached and play the role of the association who
provides supports to recover the people from their sorrow by encouraging them to busy
themselves in other activities for the development in them.
Discover support:

● Sue should open her emotion in front of her family for the support rather suffers alone by
building up her emotions as the love from family and friends can help her to recover
quickly.
● She has lost her self confidence totally after losing her child. However, for moving on in
her life and again become part of the social activities Sue needs to gain her self
confidence.
● The support from Tom and the counselor can help to recover from her depression and
grief level (Wright et al.2015).
1.3) Analysis of the effect of one individual's experience of life events on the
other health care and social
The individuals who play the role in the life people faced such situations can be identified as
counselors, nurses and the other caregivers from the home, etc can also get affected as their
service might be at risk. As argued by Zhang et al. (2015), in the case study it is shown that
nurse who taken the responsibility of Jill was aware of the illness and she also knew that the
patient can be dying anytime soon. However, she has agreed to take responsibility as it was her
duty and profession. Although after the death of the patient, she became immensely emotional
and stressed due to which she was not able to join her duty for a few days (Wichers et al. 2015).
Sue has been emotionally and physically affected after losing Jill. The misery has made her
isolated, even though she got the love and care from her husband and friends. Sue can share her
pain with the others who have gone through this pain as this can act as support who can advise
her to overcome this pain and moving on her life. The nurse who has badly affected by the
demise of the patient should require a proper training which can able to explain that this incident
like death must be understood and accepted by them as it is their part of their job. The support of
the family and the friends plays a vital part in anyone's life who is suffering from a huge loss of
their close ones (Trevino et al. 2018).

LO2) Available support for the experienced people insignificant life events
2.1) Analysis the Effective policies and procedure of organization to support
the affected people
The organizational policies and procedure which can be beneficial have been developed by the
official's groups which help to release the great effect that has been surrounded the people who
have gone through from life event significance. Therefore, as mentioned by Schroder et al.
(2017), there is the kind of association which gives the assurance that they can help and provide
proper care to the persons who is going from bereavement. The responsibility and care provided
by the official pioneers of these kinds of the association after verifying the identification. It also
gives the facility of transports to the family who has lost their one of the family members from
the place of demise to the place they want to do funeral (Courtin and Knapp, 2017).
According to the case study, it has been studied that Jill has been taken care by the health care
team for ensuring their parents that the hospital is following their procedures and the policies that
have been committed during the admission. However, the care for death is not followed based on
the age group. The policies of such problem are related to the old age of the people as they have
a high chance of losing their physical, emotion and mental health. The treatment of this suffering
is on a short term basis (Rook 2015).
As per the recent report it has stated that in the year of 2012, that the law name ‘ Standards for
Bereavement Care' has been reviewed and applied for bringing change to the policies of the
mentioned the law. It provided the facility of being safe to the person who has gone through life
event significant as it is not stopped by the medical condition as a policy of equality has
implemented.
2.2) Social networks support to the life event experienced individuals
There are different kinds of support and responsibility can be provided by the groups of social
people for keeping the information of satisfaction in their knowledge that all the persons are
experiencing the events of life. As viewed by Naslund et al. (2016), however, these types of
people accept several collective ways for solving their problems. The key objectives behind this

are to provide support to the life events experienced individuals by supporting financially to
overcome the loss. There are various types of ways which can be followed.
Physical support:
This recognized the strategies for helping the individuals who are suffering from bereavement by
giving proper care and follow different approaches by thinking about the needed peoples like
physically disabled who have been neglected and ignored by the society. However, comparing
with the case study, Sue who is going through the grief and depression after the death of her
daughter was needed the help from the counselor as physical support (Russia et al. 2015).
Therefore it can help her to reduce the sorrow.
Social care:
It is the concept which supplies support to the helpers and the social group's employees for
giving a good to the life event people. It can track the all improvement of the suffers from the
help of data which can show the requirement of the individuals.
Psychological support:
In this period it can be stated that Sue needed the support from counseling session for recovering
from the sorrow, stress, and anxiety (Frison and Eggermont 2015). According to the study, it has
the mention that Sue is suffering from guilt for not able to save her daughter from the deathly
disease. She also mourns that the child is very young to die.
As argued by Kharicha et al. (2017), the spiritual support can help her to think about her life in a
positive way to communicate w2ith other people in the social network or in the family.
2.3) Analysis of the support of the external sources to the affected people
The external sources are the sources that use their whole knowledge for helping the persons who
have faced some sorrows in their life by supporting them in many ways. The main aim is to give
the necessary care to the patients who go through depression by treating them with medical
experts or medicine which can help them to get fine. In the mentioned by Kim and Jang (2016),
most of the people get used to their body, feelings, and soul with the proper care and support
from the external sources. Meditation is the best solution for reducing the stress, sorrow which
has been advised by most of the counselor and Sue needed to adopt this kind of treatment for her
betterment.
There are two types of external supports which can be including:

Give and take treatment:
This treatment can increase the energy levels of the patients in various ways like needle therapy,
homeopathy, and acupuncture. Though, sometimes the complete trust of the patients regarding
this treatment can give birth to difficult situations (Shakoor et al. 2016). However, it can be
getting quick benefits from the patients if treated them in a proper way.
Dream, Unwinding, and Meditation:
It provides full support to the patients who are suffering from cancer by make barriers to the
action of the body as the condition can get worse from the stress level. According to Elder
(2018), when Jill was diagnosed by leukemia it was observed that this had a great impact on her
capacity of resistant. Most of the times patients suffered from frustration and stress but she is
being 10 years has trusted that the treatment can make her fine and she can able to enjoy our life
again normally. However, her trust has been lost when she saw the deterioration of her child’s
health and the condition from each passing days.
LO3) Analysis to the response of the social and health care for supporting the
individuals
3.1) Analysis of the responded organization for supporting the needed people
In the recent analysis report, it has been found that in the year 2014 a special norm has been
invented on the basis of the law of consisting and principles. The usage of these norms is
basically happening for making the proper arrangement if the principles and the guidelines have
been broken by anyone. The health department follows the recent guidelines and principles.
Their guidelines are related to the situations which focused on the person who fails to settle then
improved services are provided for treating such patients. These policies are only applicable to
them who contacted the service providers and the users of the services first. It can be assured that
the suppliers are honest with the persons who wanted supports for their patients.
The supplier should follow some strategies in order to provide proper services to the patients.
They need to give a huge background supports to every level in the group of association. They
should give advice to the people on a regular basis for observing the situation clearly. The
counselor should provide moral support to the patients who have lost her daughter. Therefore, as
argued by Woodhead et al. (2016), the government of the UK makes sure that the hospitals and

the caregivers are providing their services properly to the family who has suffered from loss after
the death of the Jill. The work of social care is keeping the individuals safe and secure which has
been recorded by the government. The role of the counselor is to bring the improvement in the
mentally depressed patients who have come for the treatment to them. Sue needs to take off
these social caregivers who can help her to bring new changes in her life and have an
improvement in her stressful and depressed life (Sweeney et al. 2016).
3.2) Personal contribution to supporting the individuals
In today's world diseases has become a common thing in everyone's life. Most of the people,
whether they are old or young, suffer from different kinds of diseases. The increasing pressure
for studying well has made most of the youth depressed and stressed. As opined by Michie et al.
(2017), due to the increasing pollution cancer has become a common disease as most of the
people younger or older suffer from cancer. In my personal research, I have found that there are
peoples who are accepting their diseases every passing year of their life. They have learned to
survive with their disease as a part of their life.
The most common diseases that have been found not only in the elder people but also found in
the young generations are diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, etc. I have observed that
many youths has the power to control their emotions. In my analysis, I have found that there are
many associations who help people to overcome their sorrow and the significance of life events.
However with the help my associated group I have advised most of the parents of the youth to
reduce the pressure of the study in order to make their child stress free as sometimes stress can
take the life of a person without giving any warning.
3.3) Recommendation to improve the available support
In order to improve the health care department, the quality of the provided medicines and the
caregivers must be well advanced before given t6o the patients. The patient’s caregivers who
appointed in the home by thaw family of the patients must take care of the patients as their own
family member. The serious diseases like cancer must treat with advanced technology (Reeves et
al.2017). The hospitals must have all the necessary equipment for treating the deadly disease
suffering patients. The family member should admit their loved ones to the hospital with the

advanced technologies followed in the hospital. The hospital staff members like nurses should
take proper care of their patients without ignoring their needs and necessity. The doctors of the
hospital should give time to time regarding the health condition of the patients to their family
members. The family of the patients should inquire on a daily basis about the improvement of
the patients healthy and the treatment.
Conclusion
In the entire study, it has been concluded that Tom and Sue have lost their 10-year-old daughter
from cancer. However, on every passing time, the father has overcome his sorrow for losing his
daughter, but the mother is not able to cope with the loss. She had become more depressed and
guilty for losing her child. Due to which she has become overprotective of her son David. It has
been found that she has got moral support from her husband and the friends to move from the
lost. She has taken the counseling session in order to decrease the level of her depression and
stress. She has got the full physical support from the counselor for making her improve in her
social as well as personal life. The external sources provided their whole support to persons who
have suffered from life events significance recently. The improved technology in the health
department can help to fight diseases like cancer. Therefore it can be appropriately concluded
that support of health care organizations, society and family is needed in the time of significant
events to improve the social as well as personal lives.

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