“Being ill defines your daily life”: Social wellbeing of patients residing at home facing an incurable illness and their primary family caregivers
Lay persons constitute an essential component in fostering the social wellbeing of individuals living with incurable illness and their families. Furthermore, the quality of communication and relationships with healthcare providers, employers, and institutions, along with the prevailing societal attitudes towards incurable illness, caregiving, death, and dying, is of considerable significance and should be given careful attention.
Authors
- Trudy Schutter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1166-7174)
- Ian Koper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-4822)
- Jeroen G. J. Hasselaar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8880-2029)
- Marieke H. de Groot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0171-0322)
- Kris Vissers
Institutions
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- Agora (NL)
- Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Palliative Care
- Published
- 2025-11-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-025-01956-3
- Primary Topic
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00