Meaning Through Caregiving: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Informal Carers.
This article reports the findings of a qualitative investigation of the way people find meaning through caregiving. It draws on the results of in-depth interviews with 37 informal carers and 11 stakeholders in Nottinghamshire, the United Kingdom. For most respondents caregiving involved looking afte...
| Published in: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 682 - 701 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2020
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