and spiritual support during bereavement. It also arranges and facilitates a decent funeral ceremony for its members and their relatives, covered by the Iddir system.Footnote97Iddir is an indigenous institution that is designed to distribute—among its members—the burden of dealing with the loss o...
However, most of these organizations act in a localized manner, dealing specifically with one or the other national community. Although this is an important effort to transform the understandings about the conflict or to provide support to those who are more affected by its long-lasting injustices...
control, financial distress, and lost hopes and dreams for the retirement years. Bereavement losses also abound. Family or friends may be ill or have died, and traditional mourning practices are inaccessible. Where there is this much loss there is also grief. In many ways, grief mimics the sy...
For the people in our study, having enough money to pay for care did not in itself guarantee any kind of consumer power. Moreover, their experiences show that their choices were not only, or exclusively, related to the amount and costs of care as they were dealing with difficult personal ...