CaRegiving frOm A Distance (ROAD): home care in the future-flexible and nearby - multimethod qualitative study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Demographic change in Germany is accompanied by a birth rate deficit and increasing life expectancy. One effect of the ageing population is an increase in people needing care, most of whom want to grow old in their homes and to be cared for there. At the same time, informal caregivers are a core resource in the German care system, but due to social changes, this resource is not endless. Processes of social change in German society will cause further erosion in the potential number of informal local caregivers. Therefore, it will be increasingly important to provide conditions so that individuals at a distance who support people needing care are actually able to do so. Distance caregiving is a broad field, posing questions of intergenerational and intrageneration

SUBMITTER: Budnick A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9557778 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature