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For people with intellectual and /or physical impairment, healthcare is inextricably a part of the overall care they receive on a day-to-day basis. Paid carers do not always know the people they are caring for very well and need to make considerable efforts to develop humane client/ healthcare worker relationships if they are to provide truly person-centred care.
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Klymenko, G. (2017). Care and Caring. 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_9
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