Who cares for young carers?

Who cares for the carers? The district nurse perspective.

BACKGROUND Community care of elderly and disabled people is increasing. Primary care teams are expected to provide support to the informal carers essential for its success. OBJECTIVE To explore district nurse (DN) views about roles of the primary care team and what is needed for support of informal carers. METHOD A qualitative analysis of open-ended questions contained in a larger postal qu...

Who Cares for Children?

My search for answers began in Birmingham in 1932 with the scientific humanity of Leonard Parsons; it found its main direction in James Spence's Newcastle where, for fifteen of my twenty-seven years there I crossed almost daily the frontier between home and hospital to make some 3,000 visits to every kind of family in every circumstance of life. Then clinical and academic colleagues brought the...

Who cares?

Who Cares for Social Image?∗

Even though the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval has important implications both for crowding out of intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices, little is known about this interaction empirically. We present a laboratory experiment that provides evidence of a relevant interaction effect in the context of ethical consumption. We elicit a ...

Who Needs Psychiatry, Who Cares for Psychiatry ?

Sir, I was happy till recently about many progressive activities of our profession through out the country. For example, experiments done to develop community based psychiatric services; brain storming sessions conducted to strengthen the undergraduate psychiatric education. But today, I sit downcast, sharing the profession's collective guilt and responsibility for the recent fate suffered by t...