Background A long‐term illness is stressful both for the person with the diagnosis and for his
or her informal caregivers. Many people willingly assume the caregiving role, so it is …

Background there are around 100,000 new stroke cases and over a million people living
with its consequences annually in the UK. This has large impacts on health and social care …

Older carers, aged 65 or over, may find it difficult to balance caring while maintaining their
own health and quality of life (QoL). For older carers, especially, established approaches to …

Background Many countries worldwide have experienced reductions in provision of formal
long-term care services amidst rising need for care. Provision of unpaid care, meanwhile …

In Sweden, a country with one of the highest public spending on long term care, there is also
extensive informal care, ie unpaid care by family, friends, or neighbours. In this article, we …

The predominant value discourse among scholars characterizes value cocreation as
involving multiple actors at the micro-, meso-, and macrolevels in service systems. This …

Background Healthcare is facing a shortage of qualified healthcare professionals. The
pandemic has brought to light the fragile balance that affects all healthcare systems …

Millions of persons with disabilities, children and older persons live in congregate settings.
Whilst the motivation for providing such care may be well-intentioned, that is not always the …

Objectives Little evidence exists on costs or cost-effectiveness of online interventions for
caregivers of people living with dementia. We aimed to assess cost-effectiveness of online …

Many informal caregivers of older adults combine their caregiving tasks with a paid job.
Adequate support is important to enable them to combine paid work with caregiving, while …