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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
openaire   +4 more sources

Caregiver Burden and Perceived Health Competence when Caring for Family Members Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose: To identify if there is a relationship between perceived health competence and burden of care of informal caregivers of family members with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD).
Bailes, Christine
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UnderstAID, an ICT platform to help informal caregivers of people with dementia: a pilot randomized controlled study [PDF]

, 2016
[Abstract] Information and communications technology (ICT) could support ambient assisted living (AAL) based interventions to provide support to informal caregivers of people with dementia, especially when they need to cope with their feelings of ...
Alonso-Búa, Begoña, Gregersen, Rikke, Krawczyk-Wasielewska, Agnieszka, Labra, Carmen de, Maibom, Kirsten, Millán-Calenti, José Carlos, Mojs, Ewa, Núñez-Naveira, Laura   +7 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Formal and informal social care in people with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal diseases: a cross‐sectional multicentre survey

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Introduction Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases(RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living(ADLs). This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disperate regions of England: Salford(urban) and Norfolk(rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring informal caregivers' health needs from a capability perspective : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2015
Despite more than forty years of informal caregiving research, the health needs of informal caregivers continue to generate considerable scrutiny. Most commonly, caregiving is portrayed as burdensome and a health risk, although positive and ambivalent ...
Horrell, Barbara Mary
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The Role of Social Food Infrastructure in Addressing SNAP Participation Gaps: Evidence From Linked Administrative and Ground‐Sourced Data

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao, Caitlin Kownacki, Jennifer McCaffrey, Craig Wesley Carpenter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +2 more sources

A cross-sectional study: caregiver burden and related determinants of adult patients with β-thalassemia major in mainland China

BMC Nursing
Background The informal caregivers of adult patients with β-thalassemia major (β-TM) bear not only physical but also emotional and economic pressures of providing care.
Runqi Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Jing Ming, Jing Xie, Baoguo Liu, Weihang Jiang, Yingjie Fu, Xuemei Zhen, Xiaojie Sun   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source