The role of caregivers in the elderly healthcare journey: Insights for sustaining elderly patient engagement

Along the healthcare process, ensuring and coordinating services that result in patients’ positive health outcomes requires strong and effective partnership between patients, families, and healthcare require. On these factors, the current scientific debate is devoting increasing attention to the role of caregivers in supporting elderly patient health engagement. This chapter discuss experiences from the field about the caregivers’ role in sustaining the care process and helping patients both to cope with complex medical regimes and to manage changes in their daily life. In the light of the PHE model, the authors will propose specific supportive actions that caregivers may enact to effectively address their loved ones’ needs along the engagement process