After Diagnosis: Family Caregiving With Hospice Patients (springerbriefs In Well-being And Quality Of Life Research)
by John G. Bruhn /
2016 / English / PDF
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This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers
understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and
consequences. Using real life case examples, it illustrates the
essentials of family caregiving. The caregiving role can be a
source of caregiver stress and can become increasingly
burdensome. People are now living longer and acquiring chronic
diseases, which makes it necessary to involve caregivers to
assist in disability care for longer periods of time, and live
out their end-time at home, which means caregivers are more and
more needed, especially at the end-of-life.
This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers
understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and
consequences. Using real life case examples, it illustrates the
essentials of family caregiving. The caregiving role can be a
source of caregiver stress and can become increasingly
burdensome. People are now living longer and acquiring chronic
diseases, which makes it necessary to involve caregivers to
assist in disability care for longer periods of time, and live
out their end-time at home, which means caregivers are more and
more needed, especially at the end-of-life.
This brief illustrates the role and scope of caregiving and its
future growth. It is useful to physicians, social workers,
sociologists, psychologists, nurses, public health, public policy
and families and has a broad appeal for use in courses on Death
and Dying.
This brief illustrates the role and scope of caregiving and its
future growth. It is useful to physicians, social workers,
sociologists, psychologists, nurses, public health, public policy
and families and has a broad appeal for use in courses on Death
and Dying.