- Promotor
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Tuesday 18 Jun 2024, 13:00 - 14:30
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Professor Andries Querido room
- Building
- Education Center
- Location
- Erasmus MC
On Tuesday 18 June 2024, Y.N. Becqué will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Family Caregiving in End-of-Life Care: Insights from nurses and bereaved families‘.
Brief summary of the doctoral thesis:
In the final stage of people’s life, family caregivers spend an average of 26 hours a week providing informal care at home. While this care can be rewarding, it can also lead to overburdening and increase the need for support. Despite the efforts of healthcare providers, many family caregivers feel that the support provided does not optimally address their needs. With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restriction measures, these challenges were compounded.
This thesis offers insights into the current support provided by home care nurses to family caregivers caring for someone in the final stages of life. It also discusses evidence-based interventions to support loved ones, such as the CSNAT/COM intervention. This intervention has been implemented and evaluated in home care within a trial context. In addition, it examines the experiences of family caregivers with end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Which aspects of end-of-life care practices have jeopardised or supported the dignity of the patients and their family members during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic? And what factors affected bereaved families' grief experiences?
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 13.00 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers can access the hall via the fourth floor. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, children under the age of 6 are not allowed during the first part of the ceremony.