Health Management for Older Adults III - Loss of Loved Ones -- Conclusion

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Let me make some concluding remarks. It's been suggested that the experience of grieving has the potential to add strength and maturity to the bereaved. "The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joys of love. It is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment."

To ignore this fact, or to pretend that it is not so, is to put on emotional blinkers which leave us unprepared for the losses that will surely come as we live out our lives.