Wilson’s model of family caregiving
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Wilson’s model of family caregiving

Lucy Webb
Nigel Monies RMN students, Powys Department of Nursing Studies, Mid and W'est W ales College of Nursing and Midwifery

The stresses and burdens imposed upon the carers of relatives with Alzheimer’s disease are well understood, but effective strategies to enable health professionals to assess the effects of these stressors appropriately hat e not been widely utilised. The authors describe one such approach and through the use of short case histories demonstrate how it can be used to represent the carer’s perspective accurately.

Nursing Standard. 8, 16, 27-30. doi: 10.7748/ns.8.16.27.s42

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