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“...Our support is not enough”: a qualitative analysis of recommendations from informal caregivers of women with female genital fistula in Uganda

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2023
Informal caregivers remain critical across the care continuum for complex and stigmatized conditions including female genital fistula, particularly in lower-resource settings burdened by underfunded health systems and workforce shortages.
Ashley Mitchell, Hadija Nalubwama, Justus K. Barageine, Suellen Miller, Abner P. Korn, Josaphat Byamugisha, Susan Obore, Alison M. El Ayadi   +7 more
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Informal caregiving time and its monetary value in the context of older adults in Singapore

Aging and Health Research
Background: Little is known about the caregiving time of different types of caregivers in Singapore or its monetary value. We quantified the caregiving time of primary informal, secondary informal, and migrant domestic worker (MDW) caregivers of older ...
Nur Diyana Binte Azman, Abhijit Visaria, Veronica Shimin Goh, Truls Østbye, David Matchar, Rahul Malhotra   +5 more
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Informal Caregiving of Hospice Patients [PDF]

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2014
Informal caregivers play a critical role in the provision of care to hospice patients. The care they provide often impacts their physical and psychological well-being.This study synthesized 58 articles pertaining to informal hospice caregiving, focusing on caregivers' satisfaction with hospice services, the physical and psychological well-being of ...
Colin G, Pottie, Karen A, Burch, Lori P Montross, Thomas, Scott A, Irwin   +3 more
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The potential of transformative video design for improving caregiver’s wellbeing

Health Psychology Open, 2021
The existing interventions for informal caregivers assist with managing health outcomes of the role burden. However, the deeper meaning-making needs of informal caregivers have been generally neglected.
Milica Petrovic, Andrea Gaggioli
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Quality of life of informal caregivers of aged people with alzheimer's disease during the COVID-19 pandemic

Revista de Enfermagem da UFPI, 2023
Objective: To reveal the quality of life of informal caregivers of aged people with Alzheimer's disease in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: A descriptive and qualitative study conducted through semi-structured interviews with 12 informal ...
Monique Teresa Amoras Nascimento, Dayara de Nazaré Rosa de Carvalho, Fernando Conceição de Lima, Dandara de Fátima Ribeiro Bendelaque, Fabianne de Jesus Dias de Sousa, Fabiana de Souza Orlandi, Viviane Ferraz Ferreira de Aguiar   +6 more
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Informal Care and Caregiver's Health [PDF]

Health Economics, 2014
AbstractThis study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters‐in‐law are the prevalent source of caregivers for frail elderly parents and parents‐in‐law. A key insight of our instrumental
Do, Young Kyung, Norton, Edward C., Stearns, Sally C., Van Houtven, Courtney Harold   +3 more
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Stroke Patients’ Informal Caregivers [PDF]

Stroke, 1999
Background and Purpose —Research has revealed that caring for a stroke patient can result in caregiver strain and a myriad of other difficulties for caregivers. This study aims to identify the level of strain experienced by caregivers in the early months after stroke and to assess the relationship between caregiver strain and ...
Bugge, Carol, Alexander, Helen, Hagen, Suzanne   +2 more
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Are informal family caregivers stigmatized differently based on their gender or employment status?: a German study on public stigma towards informal long-term caregivers of older individuals

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Stigma and informal caregiving are determinants for health and wellbeing, but few studies have examined stigma towards informal caregiving. Public stigma may be expressed differently towards caregivers depending on their gender and employment ...
Larissa Zwar, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Herbert Matschinger, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek   +5 more
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Informal caregivers and assistive technology in Norwegian nursing homes

PLoS ONE, 2022
Aim To explore informal caregivers’ experiences and perspectives concerning assistive technology (AT) in two nursing homes, through the conceptual lens of person-centredness.
Camilla Anker-Hansen, Vigdis Abrahamsen Grøndahl, Ann Karin Helgesen, Liv Berit Fagerli, Guri Rummelhoff, Carina Bååth, Liv Halvorsrud   +6 more
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Informal caregivers and persons with dementia’s everyday life coping

Health Psychology Open, 2021
This qualitative study explores informal caregivers’ experiences of supporting persons with dementia’s everyday life coping. In the future, there will be fewer health personnel, increased dementia prevalence and limited nursing home availability ...
Bente Nordtug, Wenche K Malmedal, Rigmor Einang Alnes, Kari Blindheim, Gunn Steinsheim, Aud Moe   +5 more
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