Assisting people with dementia with their medicines: experiences of family carers

Many family carers provide assistance with medicines that is vital for optimal clinical outcomes. Medicines‐related tasks are known to contribute to carer burden and stress. This study examined the experiences of family carers when providing medicines‐related assistance for a person with dementia, to indicate how services could become more responsive to the specific needs of this group of carers.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  International Journal of Pharmacy Practice

• Publication date

  2014-10-28

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ijpp.12158PMID 25351043PMCID 4369136
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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