Family Carers in Palliative Care
A guide for health and social care professionals
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 October 2008
- ISBN 9780199216901
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 233x156x18 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Family carers often play a major role in the care of their dying relative and are prone to negative physical, social, financial and psychological outcomes. It is essential that palliative care professionals can provide care to the relative as well as the patient, and this book offers a practical guide to family carer assessment and support.
MoreLong description:
Support for the family is a key component of palliative care practice and philosophy, with both patient and family construed as the 'unit of care'. However, there is not always formal acknowledgement of the importance of the family carer role, or that of friends, neighbours and other non-professional, informal carers. Consequently, health and social care professionals find carer support work particularly challenging. Symptom management, personal care, and administering of medications are just some of the tasks taken on by this group of non-professionals, and the impact of this role can have negative emotional, physical, financial and social implications on the care-giver. Furthermore, family carers consistently report unmet needs, and there has been a lack of intervention studies aimed at improving carer support.
This book therefore provides an evidence-based, practical guide to enable health and social care professionals to assess and respond to family carer needs. It also explores the wider sociological, policy, and research issues related to family carers and palliative care.
Table of Contents:
Communicating with famly carers
Understanding the social and cultural dimensions of family caregiving
Responding to family carers' spiritual needs
Policy initiatives for family carers
Family carers in resource poor countries
Family carers: ethical and legal issues
Assessing family carer satisfaction with health care delivery
Family caregiving in hospitals and pallative care units
Family caregiving in the home
Family and palliative care in care homes for older people life-threatening illness
Family carers of children confronting life-threatening illness
Family carers of people with advanced cancer
Family carers of people with advanced organ failure and neurodegenerative disorders
Support for bereaved family carers
The future of family caregiving: Research, social policy and clinical pratice
