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Experience of family caregivers of hospitalized older people in Kolkata, India

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  • Tulika Bhattacharyya
  • Suhita Chopra Chatterjee

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In India, family caregivers (FCs) play a major role in providing care to their older kin during hospitalization. This article explores the challenges encountered by them while providing care in a public hospital. It draws upon empirical insights obtained through interviews with 54 FCs and field observations. The findings show that the hospital was not congenial for FCs and exposes the factors impeding their caregiving role. FC experience was found to be highly complex and fraught with multiple practical challenges during admission, in‐hospital treatment, and at discharge. All these had repercussions on various aspects of their own life and well‐being like poor health outcomes, financial stress, and social isolation. The article concludes that the needs, preferences, and challenges of the FCs need to be considered to make hospitals conducive for FCs of older people.

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  • Tulika Bhattacharyya & Suhita Chopra Chatterjee, 2020. "Experience of family caregivers of hospitalized older people in Kolkata, India," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 81-95, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijhplm:v:35:y:2020:i:1:p:e81-e95
    DOI: 10.1002/hpm.2933
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    1. Chin-Yen Han & Chun-Chih Lin & Li-Chin Chen & Shou-Hsuan Liu & Suzanne Goopy & Wen Chang, 2022. "Family Caregivers’ Experiences of Preventing Harm to Older People during Hospitalization: A Phenomenographic Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-13, November.

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