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Showing posts with label caregivers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label caregivers. Show all posts
Friday, May 25, 2012

Changing Roles and Responsibilities for Caregivers - free telephone workshop NCI June 19th

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  The    Tenth   Annual Cancer Survivorship Series: Living With, Through & Beyond Cancer   On Tuesday,   June 19th , Cancer Care ,...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

abstract: Psychosocial Care for Family Caregivers of Patients With Cancer [Review Articles]

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Psychosocial Care for Family Caregivers of Patients With Cancer [Review Articles] : Purpose To understand family caregivers' needs fo...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Karolinska Institutet - Complexities in caregiving at the end of life (re: PLOS study)

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"...The study indicates three key areas that are sometimes overlooked in palliative care, namely bodily care and contact, a secure, ae...
Friday, February 03, 2012

Canadian Health Reference Guide - Invisible Healthcare System Taking Toll on Canadian Caregivers

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Friday, January 06, 2012

Cochrane Evidence Updates - Information interventions for orienting patients and their carers to cancer care facilities (including professional commentaries)

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AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: This review has demonstrated the feasibility and some potential benefits of orientation interventions. There was...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Caring for an Ill Spouse, and for Other Caregivers - NYTimes.com

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Monday, March 28, 2011

Blog: Our Cancer — "It’s NOT Easy to Go There.." Laurie Singer Sievers

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"....What about all of us who are carrying around the baggage of the disease? It's real and if you ask me, it's an epidemic....
Thursday, September 09, 2010

Caregiver Consultation 2010 Survey - Alberta Caregivers Association (see definition of 'caregiver')

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The Alberta Caregivers Association is conducting a survey of caregivers throughout Alberta to learn about the issues they face. The main foc...
Monday, September 06, 2010

Quality of life in a heterogeneous sample of caregivers of cancer patients: an in-depth interview study - European Journal of Cancer Care - abstract

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"This study focuses on the caregiver's perspective and advocates the development of a short QoL core questionnaire. Additional mod...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Care for Caregivers: Groups Offer a Unique Support for Caregivers - Cancerwise | Cancer blog from MD Anderson Cancer Center

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While friends and family may try to offer assistance and support, a feeling of "you don't know what it's like for me" is ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Caregiving: Tips for long-distance caregivers - MayoClinic.com

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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Cancer Caregivers Share Patient Stresses

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Friday, June 04, 2010

'The worst thing about hospice is that they talk about death': contrasting hospice decisions and experience among immigrant Central and South American Latinos with US-born White, non-Latino cancer caregivers

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Abstract: Hospice care is promoted as a model for improving end of life care and decreasing burden on caregivers. However, hospice use is l...
Thursday, June 03, 2010

The stress process in palliative cancer care: a qualitative study on informal caregiving and its implication for the delivery of care

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Impact of caregivers’ unmet needs for supportive care on quality of terminal cancer care delivered and caregiver’s workforce performance

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Conclusions Caregivers’ unmet needs negatively affected both the quality of EOL care they delivered and their workplace performance. More ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010

Dying at home: community nurses' views on the impact of informal carers on cancer patients' place of death European Journal of Cancer Care

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Note: abstract; one of the few articles which challenges mainstream research discussing the issues of dying at home and the wishes of patien...