OBJECTIVES This study aimed first, to investigate the relation between forgivingness and depressive symptoms in elderly individuals and second, to explore whether the developmental task of integrity/despair is a possible underlying process in this relation. Both aims were studied in a sample of community-dwelling elderly individuals as well as in a sample of residential elderly individuals. M...

Mr. Ilolson, who was Consul for the English at Venice, having been long afflicted with the Stone in the Kidney, was at length attacked with a Fit of that Duration and Violence, that it reduced him almost to Despair; and finding no relief from any Means that had been used, and being under the greatest Extremity of Pain imaginable, he addressed himself to Dominicus de Marchettis, a famed and expe...

According to many inter-disciplinary scholars, including, notably, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jerome Bruner, human action draws on and is shaped by available cultural narratives. Nursing is no exception to this fact, and it is this which has prompted the creation of this paper which argues that the development of narrative competence in nursing ought to be a pressing curricular imperative. At a bro...

There has been a recent tendency to attach special importance to writing education. Books on 'writing to heal' are being written in or translated into Korean. According to these texts, writing is a valuable tool for internal healing, depending on the mode of application. Writing can have positive effects and give hope to an individual or group, but it can also be a source of frustration and des...

In despair, as Deligne (2000) put it, of proving the Hodge and Tate conjectures, we can try to find substitutes. For abelian varieties in characteristic zero, Deligne (1982) constructed a theory of Hodge classes having many of the properties that the algebraic classes would have if the Hodge conjecture were known. In this article I investigate whether there exists a theory of “rational Tate cla...

Although it is usually assumed that all those who commit suicide give some prior indication of their intention to take their own life, there is growing evidence that a small but significant proportion of suicides occur without clear, explicit indicators. It is proposed that these suicides emerge from similar pathways to other suicides but the despair is not expressed so clearly, often being kep...

So much has been achieved in the last fifty years in improving social conditions in this country that it is only right to state at once that the purpose of this article is not to be critical of what has been accomplished. Indeed, armed with some first-hand knowledge of the problem of evicted families, I am greatly impressed with the administration of the various measures designed to eliminate a...

BACKGROUND While medical ethics place a high value on providing truthful information to patients, disclosure practices are far from being the norm in many countries. Transmitting bad news still remains a big problem that health care professionals face in their every day clinical practice. AIMS Through the review of relevant literature, an attempt to examine the trends in this issue worldwide ...

After entering an assisted living facility at age fifty-three because of young-onset Parkinson's, an observer-advocate contemplates the dire need for long-term care reform.

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