HCAD 600 United Medical And Dental College Week 4 Grief in A Pandemic Dicussion
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Please answer the peer. The artcle read is below:
The Kaiser article titled, The Grief Pandemic Will Torment Americans for Years, by Liz Szabo of June 2, 2020.
This article tells the story of Rollins, a 57 years old mother from Jackson, Mississippi, who saw her 38 years old daughter, Shalondra, taken away in an ambulance after she developed difficulties breathing from a Covid-19 infection. She was called from the hospital an hour later, her daughter was gone. It articulates the medical physical and mental, economical and family cohesion challenges that surviving family, two teenage daughters, a sister and a mother in Shalondras case, face with the passing of just one Covid-19 victim. It brings to light the emotional and mental struggles of surviving relatives of the 600,000 or so deaths from what the article says is now the leading cause of death, Covid-19.
Most media coverage of this pandemic metrics, statistics, projections and infographics have laid emphasis on the rate of contamination and death. This article on the other hand, has laid emphasis on the 5 million mourning Americans, including 43.000 children who have lost parents to this global pandemic.
In an effort to curb the spread of the virus, Covid-19 patients were not allowed visitors and those who unfortunately died, were given hastened, restricted and off-the-cuff burials.
Grief can be hard to perceive. University of Missouri assistant professor of Human Development and Family Science, Bordere (as cited in Szabo, 2021) noted that grief is invisible, particularly if people are not aware of your loss. Researcher and surviving daughter of a Covid-19 fatality, Prigerson (as cited in KHN, 2021) stated that grief is unequivocally a public health issue, and the mental health consequences will have significant ripple effects. KHN (2021) put forward that pandemic-related grief could lead to higher rates of depression, substance abuse, suicide and sleep disorders.
This gives us an insight as to what the nations healthcare needs will be in the next decade. Restrictions like the lengthy lockdowns have taken away the social life of Americans and for some, the taste for social life to where even when socialization is possible, they would choose to remain isolated because of a new found passion video games, programming or Netflix. In addition to the mental health issues these people become at high risk of obesity and other related complications.
In my opinion, this will generate a high need for healthcare administrators in behavioral and mental health institutions. New generation administrators who can interpret behavior patterns, design policies and procedures to address these grieving men, women and children, and make them contributing members of their communities.
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