Living, Loving and Loss

Brad DeFord, PhD, researches and writes on end-of-life, grief, and aging. He is a graduate of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, USA (MA, PhD) and Union Theological Seminary in New York, USA (MDiv). He has been a hospice chaplain for ten years, and for six years served as Leader of the Spiritual Caregiver Section of the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals, an organisation of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). He published frequently in NHPCO journals and had a principal role in writing Guidelines for Spiritual Care in Hospices. DeFord has published articles in journals as diverse as Healing Ministry and Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation. He is coauthor, with social worker Suzanne Bushfield, of End-of-Life Care and Addiction: A Family Systems Approach (Springer, 2009). Richard B. Gilbert, D.Min., PhD., FAAGC, is the executive director of The World Pastoral Care Center. An ordained Anglican priest he has presented throughout the United States and internationally on bereavement, health care, spirituality and pastoral care. He earned the Doctor of Ministry degree in 1999, and his PhD. in 2003. He is a Certified Pastoral Bereavement Counselor and a Fellow, The American Association of Grief Counselors. He is a certified Thanatologist and a Fellow, The American Academy of Experts on Traumatic Stress.

• ForewordBrad HunterPreface Brad DeFord and Richard B. GilbertAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBrad DeFordSECTION 1: Death, Grief, and Differences of Sexual OrientationCHAPTER 1Death and Intimacy Issues in the LGBT Community: A Gay Perspective Ronald L. AttrellCHAPTER 2Young People and Gender Issues: Living with Loss Linda GoldmanSECTION 2: Loss of Relationship and the Restoration of Intimacy in FamiliesCHAPTER 3Momma’s Dead and Daddy’s on Viagra!: Elder Widowers, ED Drugs, and New Romantic RelationshipsHarold Ivan SmithCHAPTER 4 Grieving a Not-So-Loved Parent: Sinking in the Mud of Hurtful Memories Richard B. GilbertCHAPTER 5Infertility and Intimacy: Life’s Layered Losses Darcy L. HarrisCHAPTER 6The Tolls of War: Intimacy and Sexuality Challenges for Soldiers and Their Families M. Douglas HarveySECTION 3: Adjusting to Life’s Losses by Aging or Illness or InfirmityCHAPTER 7Birth of a Stranger: Intimacy, Sexuality, and DementiaSara Sanders and Joelle OsterhausCHAPTER 8Love, Life, and Losses After 50Anne KatzCHAPTER 9Intimacy, Sex and Hospice: Self-Determination, Dignity, and Intimacy Options at the End of LifeSherri Weisenfluh and Vicki MerrillSECTION 4: Religious Bases for Understanding Intimacy, Sexuality, and Healing After LossCHAPTER 10Living, Loving, and Losing: A Spiritual Reflection Through the Eyes of a Rabbi Daniel A. RobertsCHAPTER 11Engaging the Christian Voice in Defining (and Redefining) What Is Right David Daubert and Robert D. MachamerAfterword: Toward a Spirituality of Love and LongingBrad DeFordBibliographyRichard B. GilbertIndex

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