Clinical
How families perceive the care-giving experience
This article discusses the experiences of families who care for relatives with learning disabilities. Professionals must understand such experiences to ensure they provide forms of support appropriate to the needs of individual clients and carers. This involves perceiving care-giving journeys as lifetime commitments to relatives with learning disabilities, whether or not they live in family homes. Different models of care have been devised to help professionals and carers understand these caring journeys, and how the experiences of carers are influenced by internal and external factors.
