Article Text

Download PDFPDF
Positive benefits of being a caregiver for a person living with advanced cancer
  1. Margaret Dunham
  1. School of Health and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to Professor Margaret Dunham; m.dunham{at}napier.ac.uk

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Commentary on: Song Y, Wang M, Zhu M, Wang N, He T, Wu X, Shi Z, Chen M, Ji T, Shen Y. Benefit finding among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer in a palliative treatment: a qualitative study. BMC Nursing. 2024;23(1):397.

Implications for practice and research

  • Caregivers of family members with advanced cancer need to be empowered, supported psychologically and socially, to be resilient and function effectively as carers.

  • Future research on this topic should consider more diverse populations to explore the holistic experiences of individuals and adopt a culturally sensitive approach to the topic.

Context

The global incidence of cancer is significant, estimated at 53.5 million in 2022 with over 35 million new cases predicted in 2050.1 Family members and informal carers engage with many responsibilities, providing physical and emotional support to the person living …

View Full Text

Footnotes

  • X @MargaretMDunham

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.