Grievers After Recovery

The first article, Reconstructing Meaning through Occupation After the Death of a Family Member: Accommodation, Assimilation, and Continuing Bonds by Steve Hoppes and Ruth Segal talked about grieving. To make yourself a better occupational therapist, promoting healthy occupational recovery after a death of a loved one. When grievers made sense to their losses in spiritual, personal, practical, or existential terms, it resulted in them feeling less separated from their loved one which allowed them to move one with their lives in a healthier way. To do this, people had to establish continuing bonds with the deceased person. Successful adaptation to life after your loved one’s death is developing new relationships and activities. Continuing bonds where you have the deceased possessions resulted in lesser decreases of grief over time. To grieve in a healthy way, the griever needs to come to terms that their loved one is not physically with them anymore. The purpose of the study in this article was to look at occupational responses after the death of a family member which included occupational accommodation, occupational assimilation, and continuing occupational bonds. To do this, thirty-one

The need for long-term therapeutic programs for patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) is very important to prevent these patients from getting fibrosis. The treatment group received an exercise and relaxation program while the controlled participates continued with health professionals’ recommendations. This study concluded that in the treatment group, decreased extracellular fluid in the affected arm, weight loss, improving shoulder AROM, mood, and Qol were