Support for informal carers
Optimising support for informal carers of the long-term disabled to enhance resilience and sustainability
... and support. These informal carers assist with a variety of tasks including activities of daily living, emotional care and support and accessing medical care and ongoing therapy to optimise ...
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Enhancing primary care support for informal carers: a scoping study with professional stakeholders
... Abstract Informal carers ...on carers’ health and experiences of health ...service support for ...carer support, and (c) assessing and addressing carer ...for carers but having ...
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Mapping support policies for informal carers across the European Union
... on informal carers, and eventually to help shape policies in all member ...of support policies, more emphasis should also be put in future research on in- depth analysis of national specificities to ...
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Key health impacts and support systems for informal carers in the UK: A thematic review
... the carers are well supported in communities so as to minimize any negative impacts of ...if informal carers were not to provide ...increase support for this hidden healthcare force, so that ...
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Preferences of informal carers on technology packages to support meal production by people living with dementia, elicited from personalised AT and ICT product brochures
... help support the continued independence of people living with dementia, supported by informal ...of informal carers towards a range of assistive and digital information and communication ...
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Rationed Care: Assessing the Support Needs of Informal Carers in English Social Services Authorities
... than carers, then car- ers’ needs are even more likely to be ...that carers might not even realise that they too are being assessed and so are deterred from ask- ing for help on their own ...the ...
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Informal carers of stroke survivors
... of informal care and reported poor health with the likelihood of reporting poor health increasing as the number of hours care provided per week ...of informal care to someone who is in ill health or ...
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Barriers and facilitators for male carers in accessing formal and informal support : a systematic review
... Unpaid, informal carers play a vital role in supporting people with long-term ...and carers may need support but they frequently fail to access ...female carers, research with male ...
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services to informal carers of older people
... by informal carers” and on the need for “extra services to individuals who were being looked after by a carer” ...“helping carers is one of the best ways of helping the people they care for” (DoH ...
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Social exclusion in adult informal carers: A systematic narrative review of the experiences of informal carers of people with dementia and mental illness.
... of carers and the health conditions of those they support are likely to be dif- ...Their carers are there- fore also likely to be slightly different, with carers of people with de- mentia more ...
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Brian Sloan, Informal Carers and Private Law
... in Informal Carers and Private Law Brian Sloan considers what private law remedies might be available to informal carers, that is, those who provide unpaid support to family or friends ...
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An exploration of the experiences of support for informal adult carers of individuals with substance use issues in North East Scotland.
... (2018) Carers (Scotland) Act (2016) came into ...of carers in Scotland and aims to help improve carers overall wellbeing so that they can continue to care, if they wish, and support them to ...
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Informal Carers and Employment: Summary Report of a Systematic Review
... death. Carers’ needs are likely to change at this point in ways that may impact upon their ...Most carers will feel vulnerable, and may be at their most isolated due to services that they had relied upon ...
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Understanding the use of respite services among informal carers
... primary carers do not use respite ...among carers of individuals aged 15 years and over with either profound or severe disabili- ties residing at ...of support most desired by a primary ...
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We-centric services for police officers and informal carers
... interviewing informal carers in order to explore how we-centric services may support ...The informal carer never chose for this role or task, and may not feel, or be, equipped for ...the ...
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Disciplinary power and the process of training informal carers on stroke units
... A number of younger spouse and adult children new to the main carer role, however, reported limited or lack of exposure to learning new technical skills as part of training provided by health care professionals. This was ...
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The development of a quality of life scale for informal carers for older adults
... Adult carers for older adults quality of ...for carers of older adults. All 40 items were taken from the Adult Carers Quality of Life Ques- tionnaire (Elwick et ...caring support, car- ing ...
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Informal carers' experiences of caring for a person with heart failure in a community setting
... “I didn’t want to live here ... by this time I was exhausted. I couldn’t care less what the house looked like ... There was no support. I mean I’m stressed out even now after 18 months.” Marie aged 69 Coping with ...
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An Ambient Assisted Living Technology Platform for Informal Carers of the Elderly - iCarer
... their carers, the iCarer project proposes a personalised and adaptive platform to offer informal carers support by monitoring their ADC and psychological state, as well as providing an ...
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An Ambient Assisted Living Technology Platform for Informal Carers of the Elderly - iCarer
... their carers. However, frequently these carers are the partners of the person with long-term care needs, and themselves are elderly and in need of support to cope with the burdens and stress ...
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