However, the practices which paid and unpaid carers and older people themselves carry out are no less heterogeneous or complex than those in clinical care (and one could argue they are less predictable!). Installing a telecare system does not mean that ‘good care’ is necessarily going to ...
Post-industrial and urbanized societies also need healthy biocultural reproduction and assure this via newer forms of assistance from extended family, friendships, paid or unpaid carers, and governmental institutions (schools, health care systems, social care systems, etc.). In both traditional and ...
The extent to which these findings represent the whole population of dying people and carers is unclear. Studies often investigate preferences in terms of location of care or model of care, but findings are predominantly about quality of care. The location of care and model of care may be ...