Anna Phillips, the study's lead author and a research fellow at the University of Birmingham, said that interventions with the elderly may "improve marital quality in the married, or cope with bereavement in the bereaved, which might in turn have a positive effect on the immune response to the flu vaccine".
"So, these properties could certainly aid the bereaved, along with bereavement counseling, family and community support, and mourning rituals".
"Increasingly, I have to deal with bereavement.
And it does have much in common with bereavement.
As she battled with bereavement, doctors feared for her health, which threatened to deteriorate rapidly.
George has recently lost his partner, Jim, in a car crash, and is struggling with bereavement.
Even for professionals trained to deal with bereavement, tragic deaths are hard to bear.
Even months after his death, Addis Ababa is still plastered with bereavement posters.
Reality, delusion and memory blur into one another in DeLillo's short novel about the titular body artist dealing with bereavement.
Hatred is easier to deal with than that more profound sense of loss that comes with bereavement, for example.
It's an invaluable term when dealing with bereavement, as anyone who has sent a condolence letter knows.
