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Chatting: Family carers' perspectives on receiving support from dementia crisis teams
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Family caregivers are vital to enabling people with dementia to live longer in their own homes. For these caregivers, chatting with clinicians-being listened to empathetically and receiving reassurance-can be seen as not incidental but important to supporting them. This paper considers and identifies the significance of this relational work for family carers by re-examining data originally collected to document caregivers' perspectives on quality in crisis response teams. This reveals that chatting, for family caregivers, comprises three related features: (i) that family caregivers by responding to a person's changing and sometimes challenging needs and behaviors inhabit a precarious equilibrium; (ii) that caregivers greatly appreciate 'chatting' with visiting clinicians; and (iii) that while caregivers appreciate these chats, they can be highly critical of the institutionalized character of a crisis response team's involvement with them.
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2024
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Dementia, Carers
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Redley, M., Poland, F., Hoe, J., Dening, T., Stanyon, M., Yates, J., Streater, A., Coleston-Shields, D. & Orrell, M. (2024). Chatting: Family carers' perspectives on receiving support from dementia crisis teams. Healthcare, 12 (11).
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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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