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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"professional caregivers"”.
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The Effect of Minimal Care Pets on Homebound Elderly and Their Professional Caregivers
… on the relationships between the home health caregivers and their frail clients who kept goldfish.
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Working with mentally handicapped people : different layers of intra-personal and inter personal experience
… study focuses on the subjective experiences of professional caregivers while working in a non-governmental organisation which provided protective employment to mentally handicapped adults. The participants who were employed as staff a group protective v,rorkshops, participated in once weekly …
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A Survey Measuring the Impact of a Silk-Screen Printing Art Therapy Session on Psychological Aspects in Mothers of Children with Cancer: A Pilot Study in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
… on psychological aspects in Saudi family caregivers of children with cancer. The sample population was mothers (<em>n </em>= 30) from different regions of Saudi Arabia. This quasi-experimental study was conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during a single art therapy session and was assessed …
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Spiritual caregiving silence : an exploration of the phenomenon and its value in end-of-life care
… care, silence requires skill and practice from professional caregivers. This research, undertaken in the United Kingdom between 2013 and 2016, sought a deeper understanding of a type of silence that contributes to palliative spiritual care. A two phase phenomenological methodology was adopted, …
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Getting Back: Successful Rehabilitation after a Hip Fracture
… rehabilitation activities poses a challenge for professional caregivers. The purpose of this study was to explore motivation for successful rehabilitation. The study focused on discovering what the experience of fracturing a hip and recovering from this life-altering event was like for the older …
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Conception, design and evaluation of an ICT platform for independent living and remote health monitoring
… related costs will rise, there will be a lack of professional caregivers trained to assist the elderly and more and more people will suffer from chronic diseases that must be treated somehow. To overcome this situation, in the past years many initiatives aiming at increasing the elderly …
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Autism and the Family: A Qualitative Perspective
… with an autistic child, (b) the education of professional caregivers that treat the child, but have a poor understanding of what family life may be like and, (c) law makers, insurance companies, the general public, and our schools could be made more aware of autism and family life, again …
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Memory, language, self and time : personhood and relationship in dementia
… elderly 'residents' living in the ward and their professional caregivers as the focus, I show how, in the face of dementia-related language and memory losses, this relationship was established and maintained across time. The focus on relationship allowed me to pay close attention to the …
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UNDERSTANDING THE GENDERED EXPECTATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS EXPERIENCED BY MALE DOUBLE DUTY CAREGIVERS: A QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS
There is growing evidence that employed family caregivers experience challenges in balancing multiple demands associated with family caregiving. In particular health professionals who are also family caregivers, defined as double duty caregivers (DDCs), are expected to use their professional …
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Vacillating between distress and adaptation: a multi-perspective account of lived experiences of thalassemia major
… the experiences of specialist healthcare professionals have been particularly neglected. Despite the high prevalence of thalassemia in Pakistan, the majority of existing research has been conducted in Western countries. Therefore, the present research adopted a multi-perspective approach, …