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Family-Led Care for People Living with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness (SEMIs) in the Low-Resource Settings

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Family members play a vital role in providing care to the persons with severe and enduring mental illnesses (SEMIs) in low-resource settings like in South Asia. The family caregivers have multiple roles which include bringing the patient to the hospital for treatment, staying with him/her during the inpatient stay, supervising medications while in the community, and taking care of day-to-day requirements as well as financial needs. The family caregivers need professional help in coping with the caregiver burden. This chapter discusses family-led care of persons with SEMIs, its various facets, family burden, and coping strategies employed by the caregivers in improving the family-led care in such situations.

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Chadda, R.K., Sood, M., Chawla, N., Sen, M.S. (2021). Family-Led Care for People Living with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness (SEMIs) in the Low-Resource Settings. In: Okpaku, S.O. (eds) Innovations in Global Mental Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70134-9_103-1

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