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Table 11 Service ideas proposed by family caregivers in the co-design workshops

From: Place4Carers: a multi-method participatory study to co-design, piloting, and transferring a novel psycho-social service for engaging family caregivers in remote rural settings

Service ideas

Economic feasibility

Organizational feasibility

Major constraints

Implementation

Help desk

low

low

Insufficient project budget and resources

not implemented

Dedicated website informing caregivers and relatives

medium

high

 

implemented

Information brochure

high

high

 

implemented

Green line dedicated to support caregivers

low

low

Insufficient project budget and resources

not implemented

Information about available services

high

high

 

implemented

Online group for sharing concerns

high

medium

 

implemented

Additional support hours for caring activities

low

low

Insufficient project budget and resources

not implemented

Additional professional support hours/days for relatives

low

low

Insufficient project budget and resources

not implemented

Training and general practitioner involvement

high

low

Bureaucratic issues blocked course delivery for general practitioners

not implemented

Training courses

high

medium

 

implemented

Caregivers time bank

high

low

High caregiver burden and caring time demands prevented implementation. However, a self-help group time bank was incentivized.

partially implemented

Psychological support

low

medium

As one-to-one psychological support was too costly, the psychologist got involved in the self-help group.

partially implemented

Self-help groups

high

high

 

implemented

TV commercial

low

high

The project budget was too limited to fund a TV commercial. However, the project team delivered three interviews on local media

partially implemented

Busto transport elders to local hospitals and ambulatories

low

low

Insufficient project budget and resources

not implemented