Clinical care delivery and social support

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Mar 07, 2018

Integrated approach for the identification assessment and support for the health and well-being of carer has been developed. It was done to maintain the emotional well-being and physical health of carers, support and empower carer to handle their professional and personal life effectively (Khan and Khurshid, 2017). It also ensures that right support must be received by the carer in the right place at the right time. Primary care team ensures to support carers and handle the capability of care imparted by carer (Borek et al., 2018). There must be improvement in the assessment of carers in primary care in order to identify their needs quickly before the deterioration of their health and wellbeing. Carers are known to impart care and avail caregiving services that can directly impact their health and well being. Some of the support given by primary care teams to carer includes offering Sunday appointment to carer, flexible appointment times and referrals to avail local services (Hitchen et al., 2011). Emerging and identified needs of carer can be supported if the local agencies start working in collaboration. The key requirements of the carer can be supported by sharing their education and information with primary care team who assist them to impart support and skilled caregiving. It is desired that carers must obtain awareness training during the time of induction and other ongoing professional development programs (Tambuyzer and Van Audenhove, 2013). Approach consistency in such programs can be achieved through the integration of health and social care teams. Referral can be done on the behalf of carer in order to impart required care to service user without compromising the health of carer. Distress and poor capacity symptoms which can impact the willingness or ability of carer to impart care can be recognized easily after such trainings (Small et al., 2017).

Identification of risk factors and appropriate interventions

Other effective intervention to support carer was Telehealth interventions including various technologies like telephone-based, web-based, video-based and remote/telemetry monitoring. Interventions were delivered through decision support consultation, education, cognitive/behavioural therapy, and collection and monitoring of data, clinical care delivery and social support. Significant improvement in the outcome was observed in caregivers who fealth comfortable and satisfied by using Telehealth. Thus, it can be concluded that Telehealth has a positive impact on disease care, hospital and home care (Chi and Demiris, 2014).

Conclusion

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