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The Agewyz PodcastDr. Pauline Boss on The Grief That Has No EndThe Coronavirus pandemic has forced many residential care facilities to go on lockdown and implement “no visitor” policies. As a result, family members with loved ones in care facilities are feeling a heightened sense of “ambiguous loss”—a term coined by pioneering educator and researcher Dr. Pauline Boss to describe a form of never-ending grief. Common in caregivers of family members with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, this feeling of grief arises because the person with dementia is “there but not there.” Another form of ambiguous loss was noted by Dr. Boss in the early 1970s, when she interviewed famil...2020-04-0938 min
The Agewyz PodcastA Grief That Has No End: Dr. Pauline Boss on Ambiguous LossPioneering educator and researcher Dr. Pauline Boss coined the term "ambiguous loss" to describe a form of grief that is common in caregivers of family members with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. It's marked by a never-ending grief for the person with dementia who is "there but not there," and it forces the caregiver to confront a new and confusing relationship - one ruptured by dementia. Dr. Boss tells us how the phrase "ambiguous loss" evolved and how she experienced it in her own childhood, growing up in Wisconsin in her Swiss immigrant family. She explains why people who a...2019-05-3039 min