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Who cares for working carers?

Carers Week seems like a good opportunity to consider the growing number of employees who have responsibility for caring for an elderly relative. As the population ages and people are living longer, but not necessarily in good health, those who are working in their 40s, 50s and 60s are increasingly finding that they are assuming care responsibility for an elderly relative, usually a parent. A 2015 report by Eurofound on work and caring across the EU points out that 8 per cent of men and 9 per cent of women aged 18-64 and in employment, care for an elderly or disabled relative at least once or twice a week. Among workers aged 50-64, the proportion rises to 18 per cent of men and 22 per cent of women. This can place individuals under considerable strain, as they struggle to balance their job with the care needs of their relatives and, in some cases, the care of young children too (the so-called sandwich generation).

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The forgotten people in British public health: a national neglect of the dying, bereaved and caregivers. (BMJ supportive & palliative care, 6(2), p.153-159)

The clinical and social epidemiology of living with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, frail ageing, long-term caregiving, and grief and bereavement is well documented in the palliative care, psycho-oncology and psychiatric literature but this investigation asks what interest exists from the mainstream public health sector in these health and illness experiences. This paper reports a content analysis of 7 key British public health journals, 14 major public health textbooks and 3 public health websites employing key word and synonym searches to assess the size and quality of interest in populations related to ageing, dying, caregiving, and grief and bereavement. Compared with other public health issues, such as obesity and tobacco use, for examples, interest in the social experience and epidemiology of end-of-life experiences is extremely low. Reasons for this lack of interest are explored.

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The impact of implementation of family-initiated escalation of care for the deteriorating patient in hospital: a systematic review (World Reviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 3 June 2016 pps. 1-11)

Rapid response systems incorporate concepts of early recognition of patient deterioration, prompt reporting, and response which result in escalation of patient care. The ability to initiate escalation of care is now being extended to families of hospitalized patients.

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Compassion in Practice model lacked junior nurse buy-in (Nursing Management June 2016 23(3) pps. 10-11)

As NHS England unveiled the details of Leading Change, Adding Value, the new nursing framework for England, an evaluation of its predecessor Compassion in Practice (CiP) revealed some interesting learning points for implementation and success of the new strategy.

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