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Qualitative
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Following bereavement, poor health is more likely in carers who perceived that their support from health services was insufficient or whose family member did not die in the carer's preferred place of death
  1. Sheila Payne
  1. Correspondence to Sheila Payne
    International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT, UK; s.a.payne{at}lancaster.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn1076

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    Commentary on: McNamara B, Rosenwax L. Which carers of family members at the end of life need more support from health services and why? Soc Sci Med 2010;70:1035–41.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Family carers are central to the provision of palliative care for patients. It is widely recognised that they are essential to enabling patients to have a choice of place of care, especially to die at home.1 Within Europe there are estimated to be 100 million carers, whose contribution to care often exceeds the financial expenditures of their countries on formal nursing services although it is difficult to estimate exactly how many are engaged in caring for a person near the end of life.2 In the United Kingdom, Help the Hospices estimates that at any …

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    • Conflicting interests McNamara B and Rosenwax L undertook a period of sabbatical leave based in the International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University during autumn 2008 but SP was not involved in any joint research with them.