Working With Family Carers

Author : Dr. Valerie Gant
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912096954

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Working with Family Carers by Dr. Valerie Gant Pdf

Care-giving transcends race, gender and age and most people will be a care giver or receiver (often both) at some point in their lives. This book explores the extent of caregiving in the UK and discusses its impact on individuals, groups and communities, as well as health and social care professionals. It covers ways of identifying carers and providing information and advice and, given the likelihood of practitioners themselves providing care, a discussion regarding maintaining resilience and the extent to which personal experiences guide and inform practitioners response to work with carers is included. Exercises allow the reader to explore ways practitioners can engage with and support carers. The recent legislative changes brought about by the Care Act 2014 is discussed, as well as relevant policies. Caregiving has the potential to transcend disciplines, so this text will appeal to students of a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and across the professional arena including social work, nursing, occupational and physiotherapy. The author is donating her royalties on this book to Carers UK and Carers Trust.

Author : Kröger, Teppo,Yeandle, Sue
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447320470

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Combining Paid Work and Family Care by Kröger, Teppo,Yeandle, Sue Pdf

As populations age around the world, increasing efforts are required from both families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people.At the same time both women and men are expected to increase and lengthen their participation in paid work, which makes combining caring and working a burning issue for social and employment policy and economic sustainability. International discussion about the reconciliation of work and care has previously focused mostly on childcare. Combining paid work and family care widens the debate, bringing into discussion the experiences of those providing support to their partners, older relatives and disabled or seriously ill children. The book analyses the situations of these working carers in Nordic, liberal and East Asian welfare systems. Highlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309448093

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Families Caring for an Aging America by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Family Caregiving for Older Adults Pdf

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.

Author : Ronda Hughes
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : IOWA:31858055672798

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Patient Safety and Quality by Ronda Hughes Pdf

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Author : Mary E. Braine,Julie Wray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781498706759

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Supporting Families and Carers by Mary E. Braine,Julie Wray Pdf

Understanding the perspective of carers is an essential aspect of nursing. Supporting Families and Carers: A Nursing Perspective offers insights into the fundamental principles of caring for families and carers irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality or religion. This book discusses the concepts and theories that underpin our understanding of the behaviours and feelings that families and caregivers may experience. While the book covers theoretical dimensions to understand the caregiving experience, it also provides practical perspectives for nursing and is a unique resource to inform nursing practice and learning at all levels. The book covers topics such as the stress process, stressors and how they relate to caregiving as well as actions and resources to help alter stressful situations. Interventions discussed include training and education programs, problem-solving skills, information technology–based support and formal approaches to planning care that take into account the specific needs of carers. Carers are a central aspect of contemporary health services, and working with carers is fundamental to the delivery of high-quality person- and family-centred nursing care. This invaluable resource helps nurses to work effectively in partnership with patients and their carers.

Author : Dr. Valerie Gant
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912096947

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Working with Family Carers by Dr. Valerie Gant Pdf

Care-giving transcends race, gender and age and most people will be a care giver or receiver (often both) at some point in their lives. This book explores the extent of caregiving in the UK and discusses its impact on individuals, groups and communities, as well as health and social care professionals. It covers ways of identifying carers and providing information and advice and, given the likelihood of practitioners themselves providing care, a discussion regarding maintaining resilience and the extent to which personal experiences guide and inform practitioners response to work with carers is included. Exercises allow the reader to explore ways practitioners can engage with and support carers. The recent legislative changes brought about by the Care Act 2014 is discussed, as well as relevant policies. Caregiving has the potential to transcend disciplines, so this text will appeal to students of a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and across the professional arena including social work, nursing, occupational and physiotherapy. The author is donating her royalties on this book to Carers UK and Carers Trust.

Author : Patrick Barrett,Beatrice Hale,Mary Butler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400768727

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Family Care and Social Capital: Transitions in Informal Care by Patrick Barrett,Beatrice Hale,Mary Butler Pdf

Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to capture the dynamics of caregiving in a number of common situations: caregiving during infancy, for adults who acquire a disability through accidents or illness, for older people with age-related issues, and caregiving by children and adolescent carers and grandparent carers. In drawing attention to key moments of vulnerability faced by family and informal caregivers, and by suggesting how to assist ‘reconnection’ at these moments, the book provides a guide for those working in the area of health, disability and care. Informal care is conceptualised as occurring with the context of personal interrelationships, these being nested within wider kin networks and linked with wider professional formal care networks. Informal care is seen both as an expression of social capital and as an activity that builds social capital. It is an indicator of resources of mutual support within social networks, and it has the effect of adding to the stock of social resources. The book makes a case, therefore, for facilitating the development of social capital by strengthening the capacity of informal caregivers and caregiver groups, and by improving the linkages with formal care organisations.

Author : Terry Rooney
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Caregivers
ISBN : 0215523490

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Valuing and Supporting Carers by Terry Rooney Pdf

Author : Mike Nolan,Ulla Lundh,John Keady,Gordon Grant
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335226689

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EBOOK: Partnerships In Family Care by Mike Nolan,Ulla Lundh,John Keady,Gordon Grant Pdf

* What are the key features of partnerships between family and professional carers? * How do partnerships change over time? * What is needed to help create the best working partnerships? Forging partnerships between service users, family carers and service providers is a key theme in both the policy and academic literatures. However, what such partnerships mean and how they can be created and sustained while responding to change over time, is far from clear. This book considers how family and professional carers can work together more effectively in order to provide the highest quality of care to people who need support in order to remain in their own homes. It adopts a temporal perspective looking at key transitions in caregiving and suggests the most appropriate types of help at particular points in time. It draws on both empirical and theoretical sources emerging from several countries and relating to a number of differing caregiving contexts in order to illustrate the essential elements of 'relationship-centred' care. Partnerships in Family Care will be important reading for all health care students and professionals with an interest in community and home care for the ill, disabled, and elderly.

Author : Peter Hudson,Sheila Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199216908

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Family Carers in Palliative Care by Peter Hudson,Sheila Payne Pdf

"This book provides an evidence-based, practical guide to enable health and social care professionals working with terminally ill patients to assess and respond to family carer needs."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Janet Boddy,Claire Cameron,Peter Moss
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415347726

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Care Work by Janet Boddy,Claire Cameron,Peter Moss Pdf

Care work and care workers past, present and future are examined in this edited collection which guides readers through an introduction to care work towards a critical understanding of potential futures for the field.

Author : Simona Hvalic Touzery
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3825803732

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Supporting Family Carers of Older People in Europe by Simona Hvalic Touzery Pdf

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of care services for older people in Slovenia with emphasis on family care. There are numerous services intended for old people in the country, some more, others less accessible and developed, yet almost no support is given to family carers, who still provide the bulk of care to elderly. Recent socio-political developments in the country give hope that the situation and the position of family carers will improve to better.

Author : Karen Hertz,Julie Santy-Tomlinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319766812

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Fragility Fracture Nursing by Karen Hertz,Julie Santy-Tomlinson Pdf

This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the perspectives of all of the settings in which this group of patients receive nursing care. Globally, a fragility fracture is estimated to occur every 3 seconds. This amounts to 25 000 fractures per day or 9 million per year. The financial costs are reported to be: 32 billion EUR per year in Europe and 20 billon USD in the United States. As the population of China ages, the cost of hip fracture care there is likely to reach 1.25 billion USD by 2020 and 265 billion by 2050 (International Osteoporosis Foundation 2016). Consequently, the need for nursing for patients with fragility fracture across the world is immense. Fragility fracture is one of the foremost challenges for health care providers, and the impact of each one of those expected 9 million hip fractures is significant pain, disability, reduced quality of life, loss of independence and decreased life expectancy. There is a need for coordinated, multi-disciplinary models of care for secondary fracture prevention based on the increasing evidence that such models make a difference. There is also a need to promote and facilitate high quality, evidence-based effective care to those who suffer a fragility fracture with a focus on the best outcomes for recovery, rehabilitation and secondary prevention of further fracture. The care community has to understand better the experience of fragility fracture from the perspective of the patient so that direct improvements in care can be based on the perspectives of the users. This book supports these needs by providing a comprehensive approach to nursing practice in fragility fracture care.

Author : Giovanni Lamura,Hanneli Döhner,Christopher Kofahl
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783825810894

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Family Carers of Older People in Europe by Giovanni Lamura,Hanneli Döhner,Christopher Kofahl Pdf

"his book presents the main results of the European research project EUROFAMCARE. It provides an overview of the current situation of family carers of older people in six European countries in relation to the availability, use and acceptability of support services. The presented findings aim at aiding policy and decision-makers to understand the critical importance of family carers now and in the coming decades to improve their situation and to encourage them in their invaluable work of caring.

Author : Alisoun Milne,Mary Larkin
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800433465

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Family Carers and Caring by Alisoun Milne,Mary Larkin Pdf

Family Carers and Caring brings together a range of material and evidence about carers from different sources presented in an accessible and yet academically informed way to make sense of the complexities of family carers and caring, carving a coherent path through the academic, policy, socio-political, and practice terrain.