Multiple Caregiving Role with the Novel Challenge of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Crisis Situation

Caregivers of cancer patients in the COVID-19 pandemics have been faced with new complexities and challenges related to their patient's care. It has added tremendous stress to the previous multiple caregiving roles. We present the journey of a caregiver of cancer survivor who had played multipl...

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Autores principales: Gulia, Abhity, Mishra, Seema, Bhatnagar, Sushma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7535018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088111
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_165_20
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description Caregivers of cancer patients in the COVID-19 pandemics have been faced with new complexities and challenges related to their patient's care. It has added tremendous stress to the previous multiple caregiving roles. We present the journey of a caregiver of cancer survivor who had played multiple care giving roles for the past 10 years. With the added challenge of the pandemic the caregiver faced severe psychological distress concerning his caregiving role. This was addressed to a large extend with counseling and empathy. Communication is an important measure to relieve the distress and address the complexities faced by caregivers.
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spelling pubmed-75350182020-10-20 Multiple Caregiving Role with the Novel Challenge of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Crisis Situation Gulia, Abhity Mishra, Seema Bhatnagar, Sushma Indian J Palliat Care Case Report Caregivers of cancer patients in the COVID-19 pandemics have been faced with new complexities and challenges related to their patient's care. It has added tremendous stress to the previous multiple caregiving roles. We present the journey of a caregiver of cancer survivor who had played multiple care giving roles for the past 10 years. With the added challenge of the pandemic the caregiver faced severe psychological distress concerning his caregiving role. This was addressed to a large extend with counseling and empathy. Communication is an important measure to relieve the distress and address the complexities faced by caregivers. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-06 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7535018/ /pubmed/33088111 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_165_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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