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Families and formal service usage
— stability and change in patterns of interface | | Author(s) | K S Lyons, S H Zarit, A L Townsend |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 4, no 3, August 2000 |
| Pages | pp 234-243 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Services ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Several models of formal or informal support have been proposed in the literature. The present study of 305 primary family caregivers was drawn from the Adult Day Collaborative Study, which compared use and non-use of adult day services (ADS). Caregivers were interviewed at three points in time regarding use of formal services and assistance from other family members. Three types of family/formal interface are identified: isolates receiving no help from family or formal services; family dependent assisted by kin but not formal services; and formal who receive some assistance from paid services. Groups were examined over time for stability of group membership and nursing home placement. Characteristics of caregivers and their relatives who fell into each category were also examined. Moving from one category to another during the course of the study was more strongly associated both with care-related stress and placing the person with dementia into an institution than was stable membership in other categories. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001018226 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: I: 3F: 7T |
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