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The practice of community caregivers in a home‐based HIV/AIDS project in South Africa
Author(s) -
UYS L. R
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2002.00566.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , nursing , poverty , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , psychosocial support , welfare , work (physics) , family medicine , gerontology , psychiatry , political science , mechanical engineering , law , engineering
• The aim of this study was to describe the practice of community caregivers in a home‐based AIDS care project at seven sites in South Africa. • The community caregivers felt positive about the contribution they made, but found it difficult to cope with the poverty and complexity of problems they were faced with. • They visited each client an average of five times per month, and their care usually involved counselling and informing, symptom control, psychosocial support and welfare assistance. • The caregivers worked in close collaboration with the South African Hospice Association and clinic staff, and each site developed a work pattern suitable to its resources.