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Differences in impact of long term caregiving for mentally ill older adults on the daily life of informal caregivers: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND Owing to the policy of extramuralization of care in most Western countries older people with severe mental illness have to rely more and more on informal caregivers for daily care. Caregivers themselves are often aged, and although caregiving implies an impact on daily life that exceeds the boundaries of usual informal care, the impact differs across caregivers. Some caregivers seem ...
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