title: Working with carers in the next decade: the challenges.
abstract: This paper outlines two challenges to community nurses as they work with unpaid carers. These reflect a changing culture in the way that health care will be delivered in the coming decade. The first of these challenges is a shift towards focusing on outcomes for both service users and adult carers. Outcomes evidence the impact a service has on a person's life. The second is the increasing focus on the concept of carers as partners in care.
authors.affiliation: Modernising Nursing in the Community, NHS Lothian. alison.jarvis@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jarvis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005544:Forecasting; D006291:Health Policy; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012944:Social Support; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom