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| The relationship between work strategies used by informal caregivers and care receivers and clinical outcomes | | Author(s) | Harriet Van Ess Coeling, Diana Biordi |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 19, no 3, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp 264-283 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Attitude ; Adjustment ; Well being ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Historically, informal caregiving literature has focused on caregivers' reports on the burden associated with caring. Increasingly, however, both caregivers and care receivers are beginning to accentuate the positive aspects of care in the home, and to identify strategies that work for them. This study sought to examine the relationship between use of three care-related work strategies (delegating, developing competence, and positive problem orientation) and two outcome measures (mood disturbance and subjective well-being). Significant correlations were found between use of each of the strategies and desired outcomes, including the value of using these strategies. For care receivers, functional status, kin relationship and gender were found to influence the degree of correlation between work strategies and desired outcomes, suggesting the need to personalise these strategies for each caregiver / care receiver situation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001108209 A |
| Classmark | P6: DP: DR: D:F:5HH: 64A |
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