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Let’s talk about... when someone is ill or dies from coronavirus. Online support for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- HOLLINS Sheila, TUFFREY-WIJNE Irene, GILES Jo
- Publisher:
- Ann Craft Trust
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 21
- Place of publication:
- Nottingham
Conversation prompts about loss, grief, and more practical things, such as social distancing at funerals in the context of COVID-19 outbreak. The resource explains how to run an online meeting for people with learning disabilities and how to talk about death. It features a set of ten pictures that can be used as prompts to help people with learning disabilities talk about the impact of coronavirus on their lives, and especially the impact of people dying from coronavirus. For each picture, there are conversation prompts to do with the picture, followed by conversation prompts that help people relate the picture to their own lives. The pictures can be used in online meetings with people with learning disabilities or when meeting face-to-face with one person or a group. (Edited publisher abstract)
When mum died
- Authors:
- HOLLINS Sheila, SIRELING Lester
- Publisher:
- Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 28p., ill.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd
Includes information on how people are likely to react when someone is very ill and to their death. It explores difficult emotions, possible physical feelings and behaviour changes. Guidance is given on how to relate to a bereaved person and how to answer the questions ‘How do we feel when someone dies?’, ‘What happens after someone dies?’ and ‘How long does it take to get back to normal?’. There is advice for support staff and carers of those with learning disabilities (including how to formulate guidelines and a sample bereavement questionnaire), plus information on useful written resources and bereavement organisations that can offer further help.
When dad died
- Author:
- HOLLINS Sheila
- Publisher:
- Gaskell
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 3rd
The text includes information on how people are likely to react when someone is very ill and to their death. It explores difficult emotions, possible physical feelings and behaviour changes. Guidance is given on how to relate to a bereaved person and how to answer the questions ‘How do we feel when someone dies?’, ‘What happens after someone dies?’ and ‘How long does it take to get back to normal?’. There is advice for support staff and carers of those with learning disabilities (including how to formulate guidelines and a sample bereavement questionnaire), plus information on useful written resources and bereavement organisations that can offer further help. The book will be helpful to adolescents and adults with learning disabilities as well as for their carers and supporters. In addition, children without learning disabilities will appreciate these books as they adopt a more direct approach to death than is usual.
How far are people with learning disabilities involved in funeral rites?
- Authors:
- RAJI Oyenpeju, HOLLINS Sheila, DRINNAN Ange
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(1), 2003, pp.42-45.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Many referrals to specialist learning disability services follow bereavement and loss experiences. Research and clinical experience both suggest that people who have not been fully involved in funeral rituals have delayed and/or prolonged grief reactions. This study in a multicultural inner London borough examined local religious and cultural practices following bereavement of people with learning disabilities. Interviews were sought with funeral directors and representatives from six religious groups to build up a picture of local practice, resources and knowledge, particularly with regard to how people with learning disabilities are involved in the process. It was found that most of the local funeral directors had little direct experience of people with learning disabilities. The religious group representatives who were interviewed also spoke of a lack of involvement of people with learning disabilities. A pamphlet has been designed for funeral directors and religious groups to give to families or friends of people with learning disabilities who have been bereaved.