Usability of a care coordination application to ease family caregiver burden: A dementia case study.
Background In Canada, an unprecedented number of friends and family are caregivers. Caregiving is known to impact psychological wellbeing, especially when a loved one has dementia, although good family functioning and high self-efficacy are associated with increased resiliency. Emerging care coordin...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 181 - 194 |
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International Society for Gerontechnology
2018
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