The growing preference for home-based end-of-life care accords a dignified death for terminally ill patients. However, for healthcare professionals (HCPs) involved, this caregiving approach is embedded with unique psychosocial, practical and emotional stressors. Without sufficient support, HCPs face hi...
Older adults who were married were less likely to receive home care. One study found this association was especially strong for men [86]. Most noted that marriage is closely related to other social factors such as living arrangements and availability of any informal caregiving [54,77,78,97,102...
121] is responsibility, and remarkable within this concern was SHHTs’ negative impact on it. As previously mentioned, the human being and human interaction are seen as central to caregiving [117,118]. This can possibly be extended to concepts exclusively attributable to humans, such as the con...
It is important to provide support and assistance to help caregivers cope to enable a sustained capacity for caregiving. This led to our establishment of Carer Matters, the first holistic caregiver‐centric hospital‐to‐home framework of support for caregivers of persons with dementia in Singapore....
This alienation was a direct result of the roles that mothers are predominantly asked to play or assign to themselves in child development, including spending more time with children and playing dominant roles of caregiving in their families. The gendering of childcare has been further extended ...
HR tip:Grant autonomy, but don’t lose sight of the map. Flexible policies work best alongside clearly set goals and accountability. Freedom thrives with structure — not chaos. 3. Work-life fit wins over work-life “balance” “Balance” is such a misnomer, as if the work and life are...