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QALYs and Carers

PharmacoEconomics, 2011
When going 'beyond the patient', to measure QALYs for unpaid carers, a number of additional methodological considerations and value judgements must be made. While there is no theoretical reason to restrict the measurement of QALYs to patients, decisions have to be made about which carers to consider, what instruments to use and how to aggregate and ...
Hareth, Al-Janabi   +2 more
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Carers’ conundrums

Nursing Older People, 2010
The aim of this study was to identify common difficult decisions made by family carers on behalf of people with dementia and produce information that might help to make these decisions.
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Carers’ wellbeing

Nursing Management, 2016
NHS England, in partnership with other agencies, has developed a toolkit to address changes to the way health and social care organisations must work together to identify, assess and support carers as well as their families. The toolkit covers new duties required of NHS organisations, brought about by the Care Act 2014, and the Children and Families ...
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Children as carers

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2011
> “On Monday mornings I’ll be late for school because I have to wait for nine o’clock for the post office to open. I’ll get her electric, her gas, and other things like the rent and stuff.” (Young carer)1 The Children's Society states “A child becomes a ‘young carer’ when the level of care-giving and responsibility to the person in need of care ...
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Comfort for carers

Nursing Standard, 1990
The 'forgotten army' of carers looking after dependants at home is forgotten no more. Last week saw the publication of a report by the Social Services Committee ( 1 ) which, for once, goes beyond lip-service. For years, organisations representing the interests of so-called 'informal' carers have been pressing for more support, financial help and ...
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Young Carers

InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice, 2011
Young carers are children and young people (up to the age of 18 years) whose lives are affected by looking after someone with a disability or a long-term illness. This article explains the problems that young carers have and suggests ways to identify and support young carers in primary care.
Chantal Simon, Christine Slatcher
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Rights for carers

Nursing Management, 2017
In April 2018, the Carers' Act comes into force in Scotland to ensure the rights of adult and young carers are recognised and upheld, and that they receive consistent and appropriate support to continue their caring role.
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Neglect by carers

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2018
There have been two widely reported criminal cases where informal carers, including family members, have been found guilty of the gross negligence manslaughter of the vulnerable person in their care. In this article, Richard Griffith considers the duty on informal carers when caring for a person and the duty on district nurses to protect vulnerable ...
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Carer Break or Carer‐blind? Policies for Informal Carers in the UK

Social Policy & Administration, 2001
This article examines three policy statements on informal carers published in the UK in 1999—the National Strategy for Carers, the report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care and the note of dissent by two members of the Royal Commission. These three documents contain two rather different approaches to policy for carers.
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Meeting carers’ needs

Emergency Nurse, 2011
IN A document published last September, the Department of Health (DH) ( 2010a ) claimed that up to 40 per cent of people in acute hospitals have dementia but that many of the staff who care for them have no specific training in the field.
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