LEADER 04784nam 22006255 450 001 9910640389603321 005 20251008143650.0 010 $a9783031167454$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031167447 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-16745-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7169093 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7169093 035 $a(OCoLC)1357016389 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-16745-4 035 $a(PPN)267811640 035 $a(CKB)25945393200041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925945393200041 100 $a20230105d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInformal Caregivers: From Hidden Heroes to Integral Part of Care /$fedited by Andreas Charalambous 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Charalambous, Andreas Informal Caregivers: from Hidden Heroes to Integral Part of Care Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031167447 327 $a1. Caregiving and Caregivers ? Concepts, Caregiving Models and Systems -- 2. Caregiving Burden and other psychosocial considerations -- 3. Caregiving Within the Context of Elder Care -- 4. Informal Caregivers in Care Efficiency -- 5. - Caring for the Informal Carer ? Coping in Caregiving -- 6. Informal Caregivers and health literacy -- 7. The use of information and communication technology among informal caregivers ? Prof Evridiki Papastavrou (Cyprus) -- 8. Family caregivers in palliative care within the hospital context ? Prof Elina Haavisto -- 9. Supporting caregivers of patients with childhood malignancies -- 10. Informal caregivers: the advocacy/policy perspective -- 11. Health behavioral change interventions in caregivers: the Prolepsis project -- 12. Future direction. 330 $aThis book builds on the current trends in informal caregivers? role in the supportive care of cancer patients (as well as other diseases) across the care continuum covering topics from the healthcare professionals and the users? perspectives. Informal caregivers are a critical resource to their care recipients and an essential component of the health care system. The book introduces a comprehensive view of the topic and acknowledges the importance and the complexity of caregiving. Here lays one of the uniqueness of this book, which highlights the areas and the ways that for example interventions in specific settings/groups of patients can actually facilitate the caregiving process. The increasing number of care-dependent people, the adoption of the principle ?outpatient before inpatient?, the shift of care from inpatient to outpatient and the preference for home care (i.e. majority) are only some of the reasons that contributed to Informal caregiving becoming acentral feature of the health care landscape and will become even more prominent in the decades ahead. The book draws on the experts? high-end, current systematic research evidence and real-life examples on these topics to provide an insightful perspective on undertaking research within this context, and to demonstrate informal caregivers? impact on patients? outcomes. The structure of the book provides multiple perspectives to the topic and makes it appealing to a wide range of recipients including the nursing community, clinicians, social workers, researchers, policy makers, technology experts as well as postgraduate students especially to those practicing specifically in supportive care in cancer. The book fills a gap in this field of expertise not only by familiarizing the reader with a wide range of topics to be considered but it also emphasizes on what the developments in the field in the future would need to take into consideration. Finally, current and future studies can be informed from the practices of preceding studies that are incorporated in the book. . 606 $aNursing 606 $aMedicine 606 $aClinical health psychology 606 $aPatient education 606 $aNursing 606 $aClinical Medicine 606 $aHealth Psychology 606 $aPatient Education 615 0$aNursing. 615 0$aMedicine. 615 0$aClinical health psychology. 615 0$aPatient education. 615 14$aNursing. 615 24$aClinical Medicine. 615 24$aHealth Psychology. 615 24$aPatient Education. 676 $a362.14 676 $a362.0425 700 $aCharalambous$b Andreas$01353338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910640389603321 996 $aInformal caregivers$93364021 997 $aUNINA