Community pharmacies as a place for informal carer support in mental health and wellbeing

© 2023. The Author(s)..

There are 5.3 million informal carers in the United Kingdom who take on caring responsibilities for family and friends. Informal carers can be forgotten patients within health and care services, yet because of carer burden, they are at risk of deterioration in health and wellbeing. There are higher levels of anxiety, depression, burnout and low self-esteem amongst carers but, to our knowledge work to date has mainly focused on supporting carers to provide better care for their family member, and less on carers' health and wellbeing. There is increasing interest in social prescribing as a method of linking patients with community-based services to improve health and wellbeing. Initiatives have included social prescribing via community pharmacies which are already recognized to be accessible for support and signposting. The coming together of community pharmacy services and social prescribing could represent a framework to better support carers in their mental health and wellbeing.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

Enthalten in:

International journal of clinical pharmacy - 45(2023), 5 vom: 03. Okt., Seite 1302-1306

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Richardson, Charlotte Lucy [VerfasserIn]
Black, David [VerfasserIn]
Lindsey, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Nazar, Hamde [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Carers
Community pharmacy
Journal Article
Mental health and wellbeing
Social prescribing

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Date Completed 26.10.2023

Date Revised 10.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11096-023-01606-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357714741