TY - SER AU - Young, Hannah AU - Hogg, James AU - Garrard, Brenda TI - Making Sense of Bereavement in People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities: Carer perspectives T2 - Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities - Special Issue: End of Life and People with Intellectual Disability PY - 2017/// KW - SEVERE PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE DISABILITIES KW - END OF LIFE KW - DEATH KW - BEREAVEMENT KW - CAREGIVERS KW - PERSPECTIVES N2 - People with intellectual disabilities are thought to have a reduced capacity for understanding death. Drawing on cognitive theory, researchers have suggested that those with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities mainly perceive loss as a mismatch between past and present experiences. However, very little research has considered how carers conceptualize bereavement in relation to this group. Interviews conducted with carers articulated two main themes: 'difficulty articulating the experience of loss' and 'making sense of bereavement through familiar patterns' UR - https://ihc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jar.12285/full ER -