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CHALLENGES THAT THE REFERRAL SYSTEM POSES TO CARE GIVING AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE KANYE COMMUNITY HOMEBASED CARE (CHBC) PROGRAMME IN BOTSWANA

2014; Stellenbosch University; Volume: 44; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15270/44-4-228

ISSN

2312-7198

Autores

S.M. Kang’ethe,

Tópico(s)

Healthcare innovation and challenges

Resumo

While a caregiver is generally a person who volunteers to take care or help in caring for sickpersons generally at home, whether family members, relatives or other community members,the study distinguishes between the primary caregiver who usually stays with the clients at alltimes, and the community caregiver (so referred to as a volunteer in the Botswana context) whois a government-recruited community volunteer and moves from house to house to help theprimary caregivers execute their caring roles.The four concepts: sick person, client, patient and HIV/AIDS client/s are used interchangeably

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