When a spouse dies, the emotional shock often collides with an immediate financial question: what happens to the Social Security income that helped pay the bills. Survivor rules are technical, but ...

Losing a spouse is emotionally shattering, and the financial fallout can quietly compound that grief for years. I focus here ...

Grief over the sudden death of a partner leads 1 in 6 surviving partners to experience such severe psychological distress that they begin taking sedatives or antidepressants. If the death also results ...

Widowers' membership in their established religions was instrumental in the widowers' coping with their wives' deaths. Membership, understanding of, and faith in stated doctrines provided hope.