Which statement is true about loss in older adulthood?
a. A person experiences each stage of grief once and then grieving is resolved.
b. Antianxiety agents are frequently recommended 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 with the past tense can acknowledge the death's reality.
D
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A Incorrect. Though the bereaved person passes through those stages according to Bowlby's model, the person may experience the cycle more than once as dif-ferent aspects of the loss are encountered.
B Incorrect. Such medications do not reduce the pain of grief; they only deaden it for a time.
C Incorrect. The loss response model considers the effect of the loss on the family as a system.
D Correct. The widow may, for example, say that her husband "just loved to gar-den" rather than "just loves to garden."
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