Earlier in the pandemic, I posted other research that had been posted to the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal about Grief. You can consider this part two.
https://www.mcmasteroptimalaging.org/blog/detail/blog/2020/09/09/grieving-experiences-in-the-context-of-a-pandemic-how-to-support-individual-and-collective-grief
The research findings featured here are not earth shattering and seem a bit like common sense, but it is still interesting to me that scholarly research about grief is on the rise. I take this as a very good sign: academia paying distinct attention to this topic is encouraging.
Death should not be an offshoot, or sidelined as a fringe topic in academia, nor in our professional lives. Grief affects every single one of us, and addressing how that impacts us will have deep impacts for our colleagues, our organizations, and the stakeholders we serve.
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