Which of the following statements is true about loss in older adulthood?

Question

a. A person experiences each stage of grief once, and then grieving is resolved.
b. Antianxiety agents are frequently recom-mended for reducing the pain of grief.
c. The loss response model is concerned with the effect of loss on an individual.
d. Referring to the deceased in the past tense can acknowledge the death's reality.

Answer 1

D
The widow may say, for example, that her husband "just loved to garden" rather than "just loves to garden."
Although the bereaved person passes through the stages according to the Bowlby model, the person may experience the cycle more than once as different aspects of the loss are encoun-tered. Such medications do not reduce the pain of grief; they only deaden it for a time. The loss response model considers the effect of the loss on the family as a system.