Funder: Dimbleby Cancer Care Research Fund. Funding £77,994

Start Date: January 2010 End Date: December 2012

PI: Dan Munday, Warwick Medical School

Collaborators: Kate Seers, Bill Noble(Sheffield), Christine Ingleton (Sheffield), Elizabeth Pitt (Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust)

Description: This study aims to explore in depth the experiences of bereaved carers who have received home care respite services from HCAs.

Progress: Abstract presented at European Association for Palliative Care.

Publication:

Lovatt, M; Nanton, V; Roberts, J; Ingleton, C; Noble, B; Pitt, E; Seers, K and Munday, D (2015). The provision of emotional labour by health care assistants caring for dying cancer patients in the community: A qualitative study into the experiences of health care assistants and bereaved family carers. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 52(1):271–279 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.10.013