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Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks
Background. Research, practice, and policy have focused on educating family caregivers to sustain care but failed to equip healthcare providers to effectively support family caregivers. Family physicians are well-positioned to care for family caregivers. Methods. We adopted an interpretive descripti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8005195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33806725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063293 |
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author | Parmar, Jasneet Anderson, Sharon Abbasi, Marjan Ahmadinejad, Saeed Chan, Karenn Charles, Lesley Dobbs, Bonnie Khera, Amandeep Sheny Stickney-Lee, Jennifer Tian, Peter George J. Jain, Suvidha |
author_facet | Parmar, Jasneet Anderson, Sharon Abbasi, Marjan Ahmadinejad, Saeed Chan, Karenn Charles, Lesley Dobbs, Bonnie Khera, Amandeep Sheny Stickney-Lee, Jennifer Tian, Peter George J. Jain, Suvidha |
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description | Background. Research, practice, and policy have focused on educating family caregivers to sustain care but failed to equip healthcare providers to effectively support family caregivers. Family physicians are well-positioned to care for family caregivers. Methods. We adopted an interpretive description design to explore family physicians and primary care team members’ perceptions of their current and recommended practices for supporting family caregivers. We conducted focus groups with family physicians and their primary care team members. Results. Ten physicians and 42 team members participated. We identified three major themes. “Family physicians and primary care teams can be a valuable source of support for family caregivers” highlighted these primary care team members’ broad recognition of the need to support family caregiver’s health. “What stands in the way” spoke to the barriers in current practices that precluded supporting family caregivers. Primary care teams recommended, “A structured approach may be a way forward.” Conclusion. A plethora of research and policy documents recommend proactive, consistent support for family caregivers, yet comprehensive caregiver support policy remains elusive. The continuity of care makes primary care an ideal setting to support family caregivers. Now policy-makers must develop consistent protocols to assess, and care for family caregivers in primary care. |
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spelling | pubmed-80051952021-03-29 Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks Parmar, Jasneet Anderson, Sharon Abbasi, Marjan Ahmadinejad, Saeed Chan, Karenn Charles, Lesley Dobbs, Bonnie Khera, Amandeep Sheny Stickney-Lee, Jennifer Tian, Peter George J. Jain, Suvidha Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background. Research, practice, and policy have focused on educating family caregivers to sustain care but failed to equip healthcare providers to effectively support family caregivers. Family physicians are well-positioned to care for family caregivers. Methods. We adopted an interpretive description design to explore family physicians and primary care team members’ perceptions of their current and recommended practices for supporting family caregivers. We conducted focus groups with family physicians and their primary care team members. Results. Ten physicians and 42 team members participated. We identified three major themes. “Family physicians and primary care teams can be a valuable source of support for family caregivers” highlighted these primary care team members’ broad recognition of the need to support family caregiver’s health. “What stands in the way” spoke to the barriers in current practices that precluded supporting family caregivers. Primary care teams recommended, “A structured approach may be a way forward.” Conclusion. A plethora of research and policy documents recommend proactive, consistent support for family caregivers, yet comprehensive caregiver support policy remains elusive. The continuity of care makes primary care an ideal setting to support family caregivers. Now policy-makers must develop consistent protocols to assess, and care for family caregivers in primary care. MDPI 2021-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8005195/ /pubmed/33806725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063293 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Parmar, Jasneet Anderson, Sharon Abbasi, Marjan Ahmadinejad, Saeed Chan, Karenn Charles, Lesley Dobbs, Bonnie Khera, Amandeep Sheny Stickney-Lee, Jennifer Tian, Peter George J. Jain, Suvidha Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks |
title | Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks |
title_full | Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks |
title_fullStr | Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks |
title_full_unstemmed | Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks |
title_short | Family Physician’s and Primary Care Team’s Perspectives on Supporting Family Caregivers in Primary Care Networks |
title_sort | family physician’s and primary care team’s perspectives on supporting family caregivers in primary care networks |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8005195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33806725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063293 |
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