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| Stress and service use among minority caregivers to elders with dementia | | Author(s) | Cheryl J Ho, Patricia Flynn Weitzman, Xingjia Cui |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 33, no 1, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 67-88 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Informal care ; Dementia ; Stress ; Services ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research indicates that minority caregivers use fewer outside social and medical services than white, European-American caregivers. Qualitative research has shown non-caregiving stressors stemming from family and community environments as affecting burden and service use among minority ethnic caregivers. Yet few studies of caregiver service use include multiple groups of minority caregivers, or quantitatively evaluate the influence of caregiving stress. The authors used Pearlin, Mullan, Semple and Skeff's 1990 model of caregiving stress to examine the relationship of ethnicity, non-caregiving stressors, and other stress-associated variables to service use by African-American, Chinese, and Latino caregivers. A group of white caregivers served as a reference group. Results show ethnicity, non-caregiving stress and the dementia affected an older person's impairment level to predict unmet service need. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001101205 A |
| Classmark | TK: P6: EA: QNH: I: 3F: 7T |
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