Invisible care: do we need a Code of Rights to protect family and informal carers?

Rea, Harold; Kenealy, Timothy; Sheridan, Nicolette; Gorman, Desmond

Invisible care: do we need a Code of Rights to protect family and informal carers?

Rea, Harold ; Kenealy, Timothy ; Sheridan, Nicolette ; Gorman, Desmond

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/28696

Issue Date: 2010

Reference: New Zealand Medical Journal, 2010, 123 (1317), pp. 5 - 6

Rights: Copyright: New Zealand Medical Association

Rights (URI): https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm

Abstract:

‘Informal carers’ are the people who provide unpaid care and support for those who need it. Care can be personal, such as bathing and dressing; physical, such as housework, cooking and transport; social, such as companionship; and it might meet financial, spiritual or cultural needs, amongst others.

Show full item record