THE ROLE OF INFORMAL CAREGIVERS FROM THE COMMUNITY NURSE’S PERSPECTIVE: QUALITATIVE STUDY

Volume 31, Number 7 (2021)

Aurelija Blaževičienė, Alina Vaškelytė, Aušra Kunčienė Abstract Patients with chronic health care conditions who require long-tern care are nursed at home, therefore, there is a shift in responsibility for their care from paid formal caregivers to unpaid family members. Aim of this study was to assess the role of informal caregiver’s in-home care from the…

The Demand of Integrated Nursing and Psychosocial Services for Chronic Severe Disease Patients and their Relatives. Case Analysis in Public Institution Centro Poliklinika

Volume 25, Number 1(98) (2015)

Renata Kudukytė Gasperė, Kęstutis Štaras Abstract Aging population in Lithuania determinates thedemand for integrated services, oriented in solving problems ofsenior, disable citizens and growing needs of home nursing. Atthe present time, Lithuania are only at the beginning of analysisfor demand of integrated health care as well as nursing andpsychosocial services for long care patients. Although…