“I didn't want to be in charge and yet I was”: Bereaved caregivers' accounts of providing home care for family members with advanced cancer

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1229-1236

  Mohammed, Shan ^a,b   Swami, Nadia ^b   Pope, Ashley ^b   Rodin, Gary ^a,b   Hannon, Breffni ^a,b   Nissim, Rinat ^a,b   Hales, Sarah ^a,b   Zimmermann, Camilla ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

cancer; family caregivers; home care; oncology; palliative care; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CANADA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE; TERMINAL CARE; ADULT CHILD; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; DEATH; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PALLIATIVE NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; ADULT CHILDREN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEREAVEMENT; CAREGIVERS; DEATH; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPOUSES;

EID: 85042587945     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.4657     Document Type: Article

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