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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"informal caregiver"”.
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The Nurse as a Family Caregiver: Their Experience, Their Story
… attention to the Registered Nurse in the role of informal caregiver to family members. These caregivers are responsible for the care of parents, spouses, and children. The stories shared in this study are not isolated experiences as more and more nurses are placed in the caregiver role outside of …
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Identifying the support needs of the informal caregivers of long-term care residents: The potential benefits of a mobile application
Informal caregivers of older adults who reside in long-term care facilities play a crucial role in ensuring the needs of the resident are being met. Such institutional informal caregivers (IICs), however, are at a greater risk of experiencing subjective burden and loneliness. They also tend to …
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Unmet Needs And Service Utilization by Informal Caregivers
… the ability to locate quality and affordable informal caregiving options has become an essential need. Aging adults with chronic conditions, especially those with a high disease burden, have significant limitations in their ability to carry out day-to-day activities, have higher psychosocial …
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Understanding community end of life anticipatory medication care
… perspectives, particularly those of patients and informal caregivers, have not been investigated in detail. This thesis examines the practice of prescribing and using anticipatory medications in the community in England and patient, informal caregiver and clinician perspectives of this care. My …
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Caregiving: An exploration of African American male caregiver roles in Texas
… addressed African American males. Traditionally, caregiver research focused on females as primary caregivers. The National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP (2004), indicated four out of ten caregivers are men. This qualitative study explored the role of African American male caregivers in Texas. …
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Doing the Right Thing: Relational Ethics in Institutional Caregiving for Veterans
… by veterans' medical crises and involved formal caregivers, informal caregivers, and veteran patients. The unit of analysis was caregiving relationships. The main research question asked, how does case documentation and documented processes of resolving ethical dilemmas in institutional …
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Life Satisfaction: Aging Female Informal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
… describe the relationship between aging female informal caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) and care recipients’ PWD demographic factors, aging female informal caregivers of PWD social support factors, positive and negative feelings, a sense of flourishing, stress, and life …
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Sleep/wake patterns and key predictors for sleep impairment in patient-caregiver dyads:: a longitudinal observational study among women with early stage breast cancer and their informal caregivers during chemotherapy treatment
… patterns of women with breast cancer and their informal caregivers may be concurrently exacerbated and co-vary during the patient’s treatment. The current study set out to longitudinally ex-plore sleep-wake patterns of patient-caregiver dyads in the context of adjuvant chemotherapy (CTh) for …
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Determinants of spouse/partner informal caregiving and its impacts on informal caregivers' physical, psychological health and economic well-being: evidence from the health and retirement study
… societal costs that may only surface when the informal caregivers grow older themselves. For example, intense caregiving can negatively impact the caregivers’ long-term physical, mental/psychological, and economic well-being. However, the determinants of caregiving duration and their impacts on …
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Case management for frail older people. Effects on healthcare utilisation, cost in relation to utility, and experiences of the intervention
… of Quality-adjusted life-years (QALY), informal care, municipal home care and municipal home services (Study III) were collected through structured interviews at baseline and 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after baseline. Study IV had a qualitative design and interviews were made with 14 …
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Alimentar no final da vida : transição do familiar cuidador para a recusa alimentar
O presente estudo submetido ao tema, alimentar no final de vida, foi desenvolvido no contexto do mestrado, em comunicação em saúde A pergunta de partida proposta foi Como é que o familiar cuidador experiencia a transição para a recusa alimentar do doente oncológico adulto, em cuidados paliativos? A …