Family Caregivers: Disability, Illness and Ageing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864487070 ISBN 13: 9781864487077

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 1998

Synopsis

Between 1992 and 1996, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation funded a survey of 26,000 households about family caregiving. Almost 1000 cases were interviewed intensively. The result is Family Caregivers, the most comprehensive body of information on this growing social issue ever assembled.
Written in an accessible style, this book provides a voice for all those who contribute a vital community service but whose concerns are all too little acknowledged. In addition to this voice, it provides vital information for the creation and maintenance of policies to support those who, for far too long, have had to bear the burden with inadequate assistance.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Hilary Schofield with Sid Bloch, Helen Herrman, Barbara Murphy, Julie Nankervis and Bruce Singh. Dr Schofield is a psychologist involved in policy-related research. She has published widely in the areas of health and education. She specialises in continuing education of medical practitioners, HIV education and prevention, and municipal public health plans. The team of six co-authors spent four years conducting the research to write this path breaking book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1864487070
• ISBN 13: 9781864487077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Schofield Hilary