title: Toward a model of continuous care: A necessity for caregiving partners.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Caregiving partners constitute a unique group, who provide both physical and emotional care for patients. There has been extensive research conducted on caregivers during either the caregiving or bereavement phase; however, these phases are often treated as separate entities rather than as part of a continuum.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this paper, utilizing relevant literature and clinical observations, we map the emotional journey and lived experience of caregivers moving from disease progression, to the end of life, to the dying process itself, and then through life after the death of a partner. Along this journey, we identify the links between pre-death caregiving and bereavement.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our illustration raises awareness regarding the unmet needs experienced by caregiving partners across the continuum and provides an alternative framework through which clinicians can view this course.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  of Results We bolster arguments for improved palliative care services and early interventions with distressed caregiving partners by emphasizing continuity of care both before and after a patient's death.
authors: Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York,New York.
authors: Melissa P
authors: MP
authors: Masterson
authors: Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York,New York.
authors: Karen E
authors: KE
authors: Hurley
authors: Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York,New York.
authors: Talia
authors: T
authors: Zaider
authors: Faculty of Medicine,Nursing and Health Sciences,School of Psychology and Psychiatry,Monash University,Clayton,Victoria,Canada.
authors: David W
authors: DW
authors: Kissane
mesh_terms: D001601:Bereavement; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012944:Social Support; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards
keywords: Bereavement; Caregiving; Continuity of care; Partners