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Caregiver Support Services
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Are you interested in exploring a career as a carer? Being a carer isn’t for everyone. While some aspects of a great carer come naturally, others must be learned. If you have always loved helping others and making them feel better, then being a carer might be the career for you. There are plenty of options to consider.
Caregiver Support Services
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Respite care is a blanket term covering a wide range of care services. Other carers come in to take over or you can send your loved one to a specific care facility. It depends on the carer and what you think is best for the individual receiving care. They could spend a day in a care facility or have another carer take over.
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Caregiver Support Services
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Is being a carer the right career choice for you? It’s not always easy to know, as you may think that you are well suited to become a carer only to try caregiving and find that it is not a good fit. While the role of a carer may not be glamorous, it is a rewarding life vocation. Is this something that you are willing to do?
Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Owing to my profession I have been invited to join and or participate in a number of user and carer groups for people with learning disabilities and their supportive carers. I might be meeting with colleagues from 4 nations to discuss reactive or longer term developments and provide a Scottish perspective for those discussions.
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
JANUARY 31, 2022
Patients living with cancer that is treatable but not curable and their carers experienced heightened uncertainty and a sense of lost opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important that the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients and carers is recognised by those who commission and deliver cancer care.
EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)
DECEMBER 17, 2023
The term ‘wounded healer’ came to my mind. The term traces back to Greek mythology, but it is also the title of a book by the Dutch psychologist and priest Henri Nouwen, who lived in the United States and who taught at Yale and at Harvard University. This is why it is essential to care for the carers, both formally and informally.
Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
JULY 24, 2022
For many children and young people living with Long Covid, the challenge of balancing the demands of education alongside a long term health condition is pausing, with the start of the school summer holidays across the country. Many with energy limiting long term health conditions find that their symptoms worsen with the heat.
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