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Working with Family Carers
About this book
Care-giving transcends race, gender and age and most people will be a care giver or receiver (often both) at some point in their lives. This book explores the extent of caregiving in the UK and discusses its impact on individuals, groups and communities, as well as health and social care professionals.
It covers ways of identifying carers and providing information and advice and, given the likelihood of practitioners themselves providing care, a discussion regarding maintaining resilience and the extent to which personal experiences guide and inform practitioners response to work with carers is included. Exercises allow the reader to explore ways practitioners can engage with and support carers. The recent legislative changes brought about by the Care Act 2014 is discussed, as well as relevant policies.
Caregiving has the potential to transcend disciplines, so this text will appeal to students of a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and across the professional arena including social work, nursing, occupational and physiotherapy.
The author is donating her royalties on this book to Carers UK and Carers Trust.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments and dedication
- Contents
- Meet the author and series editor
- Series editor foreword
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Why this book and why now?
- Chapter 2 Background to informal care
- Chapter 3 Law, policy, politics and people
- Chapter 4 Carers: Caring and care-giving
- Chapter 5 Professionals and caring
- Chapter 6 Research and practice
- Chapter 7 Young carers, older parent-carers and carers of people with dementia
- Chapter 8 Reflections and conclusion: Looking to the future
- Index