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After Diagnosis: Family Caregiving with Hospice Patients

By John G. Bruhn (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-29801-6, 978-3-319-29803-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-29803-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1096895 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
Edition
1
Pages
XVII, 54\64
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
general; Clinical Psychology; Public HealthSociology

Description

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.

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