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A Relative Absence: Exploring Professional Experiences of Funerals Without Mourners (2020)
Journal Article
Turner, N., & Caswell, G. (2022). A Relative Absence: Exploring Professional Experiences of Funerals Without Mourners. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 85(4), 868-886. https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222820959960

© The Author(s) 2020. When someone dies, it is usual for relatives to gather at a funeral to embody a collective act of eulogy for the deceased and stand against the finality of death. When someone who lived alone dies alone at home, it is not always... Read More about A Relative Absence: Exploring Professional Experiences of Funerals Without Mourners.

Ethical challenges in researching and telling the stories of recently deceased people (2020)
Journal Article
Caswell, G., & Turner, N. (2021). Ethical challenges in researching and telling the stories of recently deceased people. Research Ethics, 17(2), 162-175. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747016120952503

© The Author(s) 2020. This paper explores ethical challenges encountered when conducting research about, and telling, the stories of individuals who had died before the research began. Cases were explored where individuals who lived alone had died al... Read More about Ethical challenges in researching and telling the stories of recently deceased people.

‘My life's properly beginning’: young people with a terminally ill parent talk about the future (2020)
Journal Article
Turner, N. (2020). ‘My life's properly beginning’: young people with a terminally ill parent talk about the future. Sociology of Health and Illness, 42(5), 1171-1183. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13086

This paper explores how young people who are living with a parent who is dying talk about the future. Drawing on a qualitative, interview study, I argue that young people are able to move imaginatively beyond the death of a parent, and in doing so, t... Read More about ‘My life's properly beginning’: young people with a terminally ill parent talk about the future.

What do family caregivers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? a qualitative study (2020)
Journal Article
Pollock, K., Wilkinson, S., Perry-Young, L., Turner, N., & Schneider, J. (2021). What do family caregivers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? a qualitative study. Ageing and Society, 41(9), 2060-2073. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20000185

In the current ecology of care, social, rather than medical, support is critical in enabling frail older people to live at home. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study about how home care workers (HCWs) support persons with dementia li... Read More about What do family caregivers want from domiciliary care for relatives living with dementia? a qualitative study.