family carers
Keeping up appearances : family carers and people with dementia negotiating normalcy through dress practice
... by family carers as marking the progression of ...Often family carers reported a loss of interest in or ability to maintain appearance, as Ellie said regrading her Nan: ‘She was very proud of ...
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Policies to Support Family Carers
... to carers have very different compensation and eligibility ...to family carers who are formally employed; and ii) countries with means-tested ...to carers, such flat-rate allowances in the ...
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The everyday use of assistive technology by people with dementia and their family carers: a qualitative study
... individual family carers, or more complex IT installations set up by knowledge-able ...and family carers still consider formal health and social care providers to have a key role in this area ...
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Influences on uptake of a community occupational therapy intervention for people with dementia and their family carers
... their carers are to benefit from what occupational therapists can ...their family carers, living in the community is poorly understood and limited research about this topic ...
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Development of the Carers' Alert Thermometer (CAT) to identify family carers struggling with caring for someone dying at home: a mixed method consensus study
... of family carer is estimated to ...as family carers, of which approximately 500,000 are caring for someone in the last year of life ...‘hidden carers’ who are not known to health and social ...
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Peer support and reminiscence therapy for people with dementia and their family carers: a factorial pragmatic randomised trial
... the family carers, people with dementia, and CS and RYCT volunteers; members of the programme steering committee James Lindesay (Chair), Vincent Kirchner, Jan Oyebode, Rachel Thompson, Elayne Dunn, Graham ...
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The impact of information and communication technology on family carers of older people and professionals in Sweden
... and family carers (Cowan and Turner Smith ...a family carer of ICT-support at an early date is the opportunity to be actively involved in developing new services, something which many find empowering ...
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What would most help improve the quality of life of older family carers of people with dementia? A qualitative study of carers’ views
... older family carers’ ...their family members with dementia is increasing and little is known about how their QoL can be maintained or ...older carers can most benefit from having more time ...
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A systematic review of psychosocial interventions for family carers of palliative care patients
... of family carers systematically vary based on the type of person being cared ...porting carers that have generic application, whilst acknowledging there will always be the need for indivi- dual ...
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Family carers/next-of-kin perceptions of home-care technology: a review
... ing family members, received comments that they found that telehealth provided peace of mind and “a life-changing experience” and that “they were over the ...that family carers would not want the ...
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Personalisation, personal budgets and family carers : Whose assessment? Whose budget?
... that family carers have also secured rights to separate assessments of their ...Currently, carers can receive services or cash grants, as well as an income replacement benefit (Carers ...
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Family carers’ experiences of coping with the deaths of adults in home settings:A narrative analysis of carers’ relevant background worries
... and family carers are: keeping the dying person safe and secure; attending to patients’ basic bodily functions; enabling carers to manage drug-regimes, health technologies, and complex symptoms; ...
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Quality of life on the views of older family carers of people with dementia
... of family caregiving for the ...older family carers of people in multiple disease contexts has been associated with high levels of strain (Roth, Perkins, Wadley, Temple, & Haley, 2009), long-term ...
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The development and validation of the Dementia Quality of Life Scale for Older Family Carers (DQoL OC)
... older carers in order to improve the quality of future investigations with this particular ...older family carers of people with dementia – the Dementia Quality of Life Scale for Older Family ...
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Why are family carers of people with dementia dissatisfied with general hospital care?: a qualitative study
... a family carer if cap- acity was lacking. Family carers were also invited to take part (‘carer participants’), and gave their own consent, including to be approached for an ...
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Potential for digital monitoring to enhance wellbeing at home for people with mild dementia and their family carers
... The Edmonton Frail Scale was used with the PwD as it has good construct validity and reliability [28, 29] and allows a diagnosis of frailty to be assumed from the score [28]. The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale ...
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Effectiveness of psychoeducational interventions for family carers of people with psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
... included carers of patients living in the community, excluding four trials which recruited carers of patients while they were receiving treatment in hospital (studies 9, 11, 18, ...recruited carers ...
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Managing end of life medications at home accounts of bereaved family carers: a qualitative interview study
... extensive training and are regulated by procedures to ensure medication safety but there was little evidence from this study that similar attention is directed towards supporting family carers. These ...
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Family carers and mental health:the role of self compassion
... with family carers is expressed emotion ...in carers of people diagnosed with schizophrenia (Brown, Carstairs, & Topping, 1958; Vaughn & Leff, 1976), it is present in relatives of people with ...
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The Impact of Caring on Family Carers
... informal carers (family and friends providing mostly unpaid care to frail seniors) is important to provide an adequate continuum of care between informal and formal ...for carers in terms of their ...
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