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People’s homes and the family members within them will inevitably be closely involved in any home-based healthcare that occurs there. Family members will be bound to a person who is receiving healthcare through ties of affection and concern but also through the effect such care has on their own lives. In many situations, it can take much determination, tolerance and invention, not to mention hard work to enable a person to continue living at home with significant health difficulties that can include a range of physical and/or cognitive impairments. Within a family, there may be some members who undertake most of the care needed but other family members, for example siblings and extended family, will inevitably need to be involved in some way.
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Tasker, D. & Jones, P. (2014). In their space: Healthcare at home. In J. Higgs, A. Croker, D. Tasker, J. Hummell & N. Patton (Eds.), Health practice relationships (pp. 127-134). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense.
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Bortoli, T.D., Tasker, D., Murray, C. (2017). Families. In: Tasker, D., Higgs, J., Loftus, S. (eds) Community-Based Healthcare. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-995-9_7
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