The typical image of caregiving and the elderly is one of an older person who is ill or infirm receiving care from a younger person. In many instances this image is correct. However, older women and men are not only the recipients of care; in many cases they are caregivers themselves. Another assumption about caregiving is that the person giving the care is a woman. Again, this is generally tru...

This means that health care need to get back to a more holistic view on what care is. It also includes more co-production [1], not only between care givers and their patient, but also between different caregivers across organizational boundaries. The biggest challenge to health care and social services today is how to produce the best and most effective and efficient care to all people in need....

T he human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, by its devastating nature as an incurable, contagious disease primarily affecting young, previously healthy patients, presents care-givers with many ethical dilemmas. While the epidemic and the dilemmas it creates are novel, the ethical principles at our disposal are well established through our experience with other diseases. In this article we...

Purpose: Interest is growing in integrated systems of e-care for the frail elderly. The present project promotes cognitive training and assessment using ICT tools, stimulates the socialization, shares and monitors the situation of the elderly by different professionals, care givers and relatives. Context: Within the frame of the European Commission funded SOCIABLE Project, 348 elderly are parti...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate stroke patients' satisfaction with care received and to identify characteristics of patients and care which are associated with patients' dissatisfaction. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Sample of patients who participated in a multicentre study on quality of care in 23 hospitals in the Netherlands. PATIENTS 327 non-institutionalised patients who had been in h...

Underpinning a general pattern of higher suicide rates in men is the assumption that men do not ask for help or utilize the health-care system during times of psychological distress. There has been a failure to grapple with the dynamic of when, how and from whom men might ask for help during times of psychological distress, and what key barriers or enabling factors are likely to influence poten...