Measuring dementia carers' unmet need for services - an exploratory mixed method study
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Measuring dementia carers' unmet need for services - an exploratory mixed method study
BACKGROUND To ensure carers of people with dementia receive support, community services increasingly use measures of caregiver (carer) burden to assess for unmet need. This study used Bradshaw's taxonomy of need to explore the link between measures of carer burden (normative need), service use (expressed need), and carer's stated need (felt need). METHODS This mixed method exploratory study c...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-122