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Comparing and contrasting the role of family carers and nurses in the domestic health care of frail older people
Author(s)	Susan Pickard, Caroline Glendinning
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 10, no 3, May 2002
Pages	pp 144-150
Keywords	Family care ; Nurses ; District nurses ; Psychiatric nurses ; Social roles ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Comparison.
Annotation	Care in the community has been constructed on the basis of professional support for carers, who, as a result of community care policy that has released highly dependent people from residential care and long-stay wards, are carrying out a wide range of tasks, including complex health care activities. This paper examines the health care activities currently undertaken by family carers and the way in which they work with, and are supported by, professional nurses in the home. It compares and contrasts the approaches of both groups in care-giving for this client group. The authors make some suggestions for improving the way in which family carers and nurses work together in the home. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020521209 A
Classmark	P6:SJ: QTE: QTG: QTK: TM5: N3: 48
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