Family caregivers coping with terminality during home care

• Main Authors: Stefanie Griebeler Oliveira (Author), Alberto Manuel Quintana (Author), Maria de Lourdes Denardin Budó (Author), Maria Henriqueta Luce Kruse (Author), Raquel Pötter Garcia (Author), Bruna Sodré Simon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study aimed to know how family caregivers cope with the finitude of their close relative in home care. This is a qualitative study, involving 11 caregivers of terminally ill patients, registered in a home care service of a university hospital in the South of Brazil, conducted in the period from...