59,900 persons with Cerebrovascular diseases (stroke) in Hong Kong
LOU W. Q. VivianAssociate Professor
Challenges
Emotional uncertainty of care recipients and information and skill training needs (Greenwood, Mackenzie, Cloud, & Wilson, 2009)
Care recipients’ behavioral and psychological symptoms and caregivers’ emotional distress (Cameron, Cheung, Streiner, Coyte, & Stewart, 2011)
Objective and subjective caregiving burden and health risks (Van Exel, Koopmanschap, van den Berg, Brouwer, & Van den Bos, 2005)
Insufficient home care services (Levine et al., 2006)
References
Cameron, J. I., Cheung, A. M., Streiner, D. L., Coyte, P. C., & Stewart, D. E. (2011). Stroke survivor depressive symptoms are associated with family caregiver depression during the first 2 years poststroke. Stroke, 42(2), 302-306.
Greenwood, N., Mackenzie, A., Cloud, G. C., & Wilson, N. (2009). Informal primary carers of stroke survivors living at home–challenges, satisfactions and coping: a systematic review of qualitative studies. Disability and rehabilitation, 31(5), 337-351.
Levine, C., Albert, S. M., Hokenstad, A., Halper, D. E., Hart, A. Y., & Gould, D. A. (2006). “This case is closed”: family caregivers and the termination of home health care services for stroke patients. Milbank Quarterly, 84(2), 305-331.
Van Exel, N., Koopmanschap, M., van den Berg, B., Brouwer, W., & Van den Bos, G. (2005). Burden of informal caregiving for stroke patients. Cerebrovascular Diseases, 19(1), 11-17.
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