Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2015
Caregiver Expectations: Predictors of a Worse Than Expected Caregiving Experience at the End of Life.
The gap between informal caregivers' expectations of caregiving at the end of life and their actual caregiving experience has important affective and behavioral consequences. ⋯ Caregiver expectations represent a novel and important focus for investigation into the caregiver experience. Explicitly eliciting expectations may in future lead to ways of better supporting caregivers.