Persons who provide care to those who need supervision or assistance in illness or disability. They may provide the care in the home, in a hospital, or in an institution. Although caregivers include trained medical, nursing, and other health personnel, the concept also refers to parents, spouses, or other family members, friends, members of the clergy, teachers, social workers, fellow patients.
    

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If you can't be a buddy : be a friend / LASS.

Your rights in the AIDS era. 8, Benefits / Immunity.

Could you be a friend to someone with AIDS? : the Buddy Service / Terrence Higgins Trust.

The lives of community health workers : local labor and global health in urban Ethiopia / Kenneth Maes.

Ocytocin : birthing the world / Procreate Project.

Dying in the West : health care policies and caregiving practices in Montana and Alberta, 1880-1950 / by Dawn Dorothy Nickel.

Flexible working : your right to have a say in the hours you work / USDAW.

The Alzheimer's creativity project / Jytte Fogh Lokvig.

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The lives of community health workers : local labor and global health in urban Ethiopia / Kenneth Maes.

Ocytocin : birthing the world / Procreate Project.

Dying in the West : health care policies and caregiving practices in Montana and Alberta, 1880-1950 / by Dawn Dorothy Nickel.

Flexible working : your right to have a say in the hours you work / USDAW.

The Alzheimer's creativity project / Jytte Fogh Lokvig.