Social problem-solving telephone partnerships with family caregivers of persons with stroke

As individuals with significant functional deficits are discharged earlier from the hospital, health care professionals are challenged to develop cost -effective intervention programmes that will assist family members to manag e caregiving problems in the home. The literature suggests that social prob lem-solving can positively influence the physical and psychological well-be ing of individuals. This paper describes a social problem-solving training procedure provided primarily by telephone to assist family caregivers to ma nage caregiving issues in the home. (C) 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.