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End-of-life caregiving
— special issue | | Author(s) | Ellen L Csikai |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Work in End-of-life & Palliative Care, vol 4, no 4, 2008 |
| Publisher | Haworth Social Work Practice Press, Binghamton, NY, 2008 |
| Pages | pp 267-357 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Terminal illness ; Death ; Informal care ; Family care ; Social workers ; Needs [elderly] ; Stress ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Four peer reviewed articles variously consider the unmet needs and emotional physical strain experienced by caregivers in providing end-of-life care. First, Hébert and colleagues investigate the extent to which social workers in hospital settings prepared caregivers for death of the care recipient. Next, Gustavson and Dal Santo explore the well-being, service use and unmet needs of caregivers of the dying, and whether such end-of-life caregiving differs from other types of caregiving. Informal caregivers - particularly family caregivers - are essential in the provision of hospice home care. Wilder and colleagues report on a study of self-rated quality of life of hospice caregivers. Lastly, Munn and Adorno present a qualitative study on the involvement of social workers as professional caregivers in end of life long-term care. These social workers found difficulty in articulating their roles in end of life care. Research is needed to validate the value of social work involvement. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100929010 A |
| Classmark | LV: CV: CW: P6: P6:SJ: QR: IK: QNH: 3DP: 7T |
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