Managing the Impact of Advanced Complex Illness on Family Caregiver and Professional Caregiver Stress: A Role for Palliative Care.
Publication/Presentation Date
2017
Abstract
With the increasing health care needs of an ageing population and the projected shortfall in the US healthcare workforce, an increasing number of patients with advanced complex illness will require care at home. Up to 90 percent of this care is provided by unpaid family or informal caregivers. Caregiver stress is a challenge for both family caregivers and members of the health care team responsible for medical care. Using clinical cases, the authors describe an innovative health service delivery model that links specialty palliative care services provided by palliative care certified registered nurse practitioners (CRNPs) to the patient's primary and specialty physicians. Optimizing Advanced Complex Illness Support (OACIS) is an interdisciplinary program that provides inpatient, outpatient and home-based palliative care services, and also serves as a platform for the support of both family and professional caregivers.
First Page
223
Last Page
235
ISSN
Cary L. Cooper andJames Campbell Quick
Published In/Presented At
Harper, G. R., Blitz, B., Serena, C., Stevens, D. and Ray, D. E. (2017) Managing the Impact of Advanced Complex Illness on Family Caregiver and Professional Caregiver Stress: A Role for Palliative Care. in The Handbook of Stress and Health: A Guide to Research and Practice (eds C. L. Cooper and J. C. Quick), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118993811.ch13
Disciplines
Medical Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Department(s)
Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Faculty, Section of Palliative Medicine and Hospice
Document Type
Book Chapter
Comments
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