Abstract
The purpose of this commentary is to illuminate the role of foreign domestic workers
(FDW) as caregivers for patients undergoing rehabilitation in Asia. The authors of
a published study in this issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation investigate the association between the characteristics of caregivers for patients
recovering from sub-acute stroke and the rehabilitation outcomes of those patients
in Singapore. The investigators examined over 4,000 caregivers and one of the findings
showed that after controlling for characteristics of both caregivers and patients,
there was a significant and negative association between having an FDW as a caregiver,
compared to a spouse, and patient rehabilitation effectiveness. The inclusion of FDW’s
in this study is an important and understudied group of caregivers in the role of
patient rehabilitation that is relatively new to the US, but common in other parts
of the world.
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Published online: May 27, 2017
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