Committed to caring: Carer experiences after a relative goes into nursing or residential care
Abstract
This article presents the key findings from a collaborative study about the experiences and support needs of carers whose relatives are admitted into a nursing or residential care home. Drawing upon data from carers' qualitative accounts, it considers carers' post‐admission roles, responsibilities and profiles, and the contribution carers make to the continued care of their relative. Carers' post‐admission caring experiences are described in detail and differences between spouse carers and carers involved in looking after a parent are identified. A temporal model depicting the complex and dynamic nature of carers' postadmission experiences is presented. The implications for policy and practice are discussed.
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Citation
Seddon, D., Jones, K. and Boyle, M. (2002), "Committed to caring: Carer experiences after a relative goes into nursing or residential care", Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 16-26. https://doi.org/10.1108/14717794200200018
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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