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Caring for the caregiver: Why policy must shift from addressing needs to enabling caregivers to flourish

Policies supporting caregivers (“caregiver policies”) are limited in the extent to which they meet the needs of those who care for others. Where policies do exist, they focus on relieving the burdens associated with caring or the needs of the person they care for, rather than consider the holistic n...

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Autores principales: Beach, Brian, Bélanger-Hardy, Louise, Harding, Susana, Rodrigues Perracini, Monica, Garcia, Linda, Tripathi, Ishika, Gillis, Margaret, Dow, Briony
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9626797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36339159
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.997981
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author Beach, Brian
Bélanger-Hardy, Louise
Harding, Susana
Rodrigues Perracini, Monica
Garcia, Linda
Tripathi, Ishika
Gillis, Margaret
Dow, Briony
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Bélanger-Hardy, Louise
Harding, Susana
Rodrigues Perracini, Monica
Garcia, Linda
Tripathi, Ishika
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description Policies supporting caregivers (“caregiver policies”) are limited in the extent to which they meet the needs of those who care for others. Where policies do exist, they focus on relieving the burdens associated with caring or the needs of the person they care for, rather than consider the holistic needs of the caregiver that would enable them to flourish. We argue that the established approach to caregiver policies reflects a policy failure, requiring a reassessment of current practice related to caregiver support. Often, caregiver policies target the care recipient rather than the caregiver's needs. Through a consultative exercise, we identified five areas of need that existing caregiver policies touch upon. Yet current approaches remain piecemeal and inadequate in a global context. Caregiver policies should not just relieve burden to the extent that caregivers can continue in the role, but they should support caregivers to flourish, and future work may benefit from drawing on related frameworks from positive psychology, such as the PERMA™ model; this is important for both policymakers and researchers.
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spelling pubmed-96267972022-11-03 Caring for the caregiver: Why policy must shift from addressing needs to enabling caregivers to flourish Beach, Brian Bélanger-Hardy, Louise Harding, Susana Rodrigues Perracini, Monica Garcia, Linda Tripathi, Ishika Gillis, Margaret Dow, Briony Front Public Health Public Health Policies supporting caregivers (“caregiver policies”) are limited in the extent to which they meet the needs of those who care for others. Where policies do exist, they focus on relieving the burdens associated with caring or the needs of the person they care for, rather than consider the holistic needs of the caregiver that would enable them to flourish. We argue that the established approach to caregiver policies reflects a policy failure, requiring a reassessment of current practice related to caregiver support. Often, caregiver policies target the care recipient rather than the caregiver's needs. Through a consultative exercise, we identified five areas of need that existing caregiver policies touch upon. Yet current approaches remain piecemeal and inadequate in a global context. Caregiver policies should not just relieve burden to the extent that caregivers can continue in the role, but they should support caregivers to flourish, and future work may benefit from drawing on related frameworks from positive psychology, such as the PERMA™ model; this is important for both policymakers and researchers. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9626797/ /pubmed/36339159 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.997981 Text en Copyright © 2022 Beach, Bélanger-Hardy, Harding, Rodrigues Perracini, Garcia, Tripathi, Gillis and Dow. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Rodrigues Perracini, Monica
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Gillis, Margaret
Dow, Briony
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9626797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36339159
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.997981
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