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| Social support for spouse caregivers of persons with dementia | | Author(s) | Baila Miller, Shenyang Guo |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 55B, no 3, May 2000 |
| Pages | pp S163-S172 |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Dementia ; Informal care ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The value of simultaneously taking helper and caregiver characteristics into account when examining social support received by spouse caregivers of people with dementia is analysed. This study also questions whether sources and types of received support vary by helper's gender and relationship and/or by the caregiver's race and gender. Drawing on a sample of 210 spouse caregivers of people with dementia, the Generalised Estimating Equation (GEE) method was used to examine a population-average logistic regression model to consider cross-level helper and caregiver interactions. Results indicate that helper and caregiver characteristics interact in complex ways. White male caregivers are more likely to receive emotional support from adult children and to receive practical assistance from formal sources, compared with other types of support and to other race/gender caregiver groups. Description of caregivers' social status characteristics as determinants of their social network may be less fruitful in understanding the benefits of social support than a focus on which helpers assist with what kinds of tasks for which groups of caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000825232 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: EA: P6: 7T |
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