Adrianna Thurgood (EDT), Kasha Schuldt (EDT) Caregivers

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In this book, the authors discuss the challenges, practices and cultural influences of caregiving. Topics include caregiving for individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders and intellectual disabilities; family caregivers for patients with cancer; elder caregiving in South Asian families in the U.S. and India; study of caregiver's resilience; caregiver burden in a Hong Kong Chinese population; managing compassion fatigue among professional cancer caregivers; community-based education for palliative care for the elderly in Japan; caregiver perception and oral health in cerebral palsy children; and the role of assistive technologies for person-centered dementia care in Japan.