Journal
JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages E66-E69Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.04.006
Keywords
Family caregivers; COVID-19; pandemic; palliative and supportive care
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presents unique challenges to those who work with the seriously ill population, including both health care providers and the family caregivers providing unpaid care. We rely on this lay workforce as health care routinely transitions care to the home, and now more than ever, we are depending on them in the current pandemic. As palliative care and other health care providers become overwhelmed with patients critically ill with COVID-19, and routine care becomes delayed, we have a charge to recognize and work with family caregivers. Our commentary provides rationale for the need to focus on family caregivers and key considerations for how to include them in pandemic clinical decision making. (C) 2020 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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