Developing a carers group

Narratives in a users' and carers' group: meanings and impact.

BACKGROUND Carers who wished to share their experiences with a national working group (the Consumer Group) prepared narratives as a way of identifying areas for discussion. METHODS The narratives were submitted to one author and subjected to thematic qualitative analysis. The themes were fed back to the Group for discussion. RESULTS Five main themes were identified: difficulties in obtainin...

Developing Use-Cases in a Group

The Battelle Arlington Federal Civilian Operations team developed a collaborative, electronic approach for Use-Case analysis that is innovative, customizable, and efficient. The team used meeting room software as the vehicle for collecting all the data for the requirements for a information system life cycle processes for the United States Coast Guard and for the Food and Drug Administration (F...

Healthy Parent Carers programme: development and feasibility of a novel group-based health-promotion intervention

BACKGROUND Parent carers of disabled children report poor physical health and mental wellbeing. They experience high levels of stress and barriers to engagement in health-related behaviours and with 'standard' preventive programmes (e.g. weight loss programmes). Interventions promoting strategies to improve health and wellbeing of parent carers are needed, tailored to their specific needs and c...

Strange Carers

The present comment focuses on the distinction between attachment as bond formation and expectations of availability and responsiveness (security) within attachment relationships. We enumerate key components of bonding and functions of carer secure base support. Our analysis has implications for design and suggests that robots are unlikely to serve effectively as sole carers. Even with robots a...

Assessment of quality of life in veterinary practice: developing tools for companion animal carers and veterinarians