Since starting with Care & Carers, (coming up to 3-months) we have never been let down. They are...Jane S (Daughter of Client) 13 Feb 2020 We have been using Care & Carers since August 2019 three times a day and they are excellent! Lovely...Kathleen E (Client) 14 Nov 2019 Two...
and present service users, carers, medical professionals and legislators with a range of emotional, ethical and practical challenges [1,2]. There are large but at times unexplained variations between countries in compulsory admission rates, and rates have risen in some countries...
Informal carers play an important role in supporting people with long-term conditions living at home. However, the caring role is known to have adverse effects on carers such as poorer emotional health and social isolation. A variety of types of respite
It is planned down to the smallest detail that you are coming. Nothing is left to chance. And that really shined through. They know what they are doing.” (Marianne, Foster carer). 3.1.2. Getting through it, while having some fun All the adolescents described the assessment day as a ...
The following quote from a daughter illustrates the emotional hardship of transitioning a parent to residential aged care: ‘Honestly, right from the beginning we knew it was happening and we knew it was coming. My sister and I were so stressed, I remember going home crying numerous times. ...
When they knew I was coming up, I knew my Mum was always like kept spotless, if they knew I was there, everything would be near enough right. (ID5, son) Understanding of the progression of dementia Carers' capacity to understand the progression of dementia and be involved and informed ...
oh just before she went to hospital but coming out like on leave, she would look for cigarettes and everything and um, and then since coming out of hospital she does it to help relieve the anxiety, um, and she doesn’t cut now um, because she is sort of coping better with that.”...
and so long as the ACCOMPANY Care-O-bot®accommodates itself to individual users rather than coming up with an agenda of its own. To go back to Siena’s methods of keeping up older people’s social skills by adjusting its behaviour to the user’s tone of voice, this might have what...
in-depth interviews with 47 patients, carers, and health professionals, emotional care was shown to be (1) fundamental to the provision of comprehensive cancer care, (2) essential to easing the burden of a cancer diagnosis and demands of treatment, (3) everyone’s business, and (4) a ...
“… they turned up later that day and just in front of him started going on about end-of-life care … I was really angry and I [took] her outside and I said, “Why are you coming out with this in front of him?” and she said, “Oh I thought you knew. The hospital’s mean...