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A Strengths Perspective on Caregiving at the End-of-life

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posted on 2023-05-18, 02:28 authored by Hughes, M
The adverse effects of caregiving provided by family members, partners, and friends for people dying at home from a life-limiting illness have been extensively documented in the palliative care research literature, yet minimal attention has been directed towards the strengths of informal carers and their subsequent growth and development. Using in-depth interviews from a purposive sample of informal carers (n = 28), this paper reports empirical evidence from a subset of data analysed for an Australian qualitative study, illuminating a range of strengths frequently obscured beneath the emotional-labour work of caregiving and further sequestrated by the chaos of grief. A strengths perspective on caregiving at end-of-life is important because it helps to inform a reconstruction of caring and dying to include dimensions that relate to the growth of human potential and capacity, as well as enabling collaborative partnerships between workers and informal carers at the end-of-life.

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Publication title

Australian Social Work

Pagination

online

ISSN

0312-407X

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

Australia

Rights statement

Copyright 2014 Australian Association of Social Workers

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Palliative care

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