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| Stress in caregivers of hospitalized oldest-old patients | | Author(s) | Norman A Desbiens, Nancy Mueller-Rizner, Beth Virnig |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 56A, no 4, April 2001 |
| Pages | pp M231-M235 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Informal care ; In-patients ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As part of the Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project (HELP), a US national study of outcomes and decision making for in-patients aged 80+, the authors interviewed caregivers and studied factors associated with the stress they perceived in caring for these patients. Caregivers tended to be female and age 50+. About one in five described her own health as fair or poor, nearly half of whom lived with the patient. About a quarter spent 8 hours a day caring for the patient, and had few others to help them with care. Most of the caregivers reported mild to moderate levels of stress. After adjustment, higher stress scores were associated with female caregivers, poorer caregiver health, more hours per day spent caring for the patient, and the presence of patient depression and hearing impairment, treatment of which may ameliorate caregiver stress. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010515204 A |
| Classmark | QNH: P6: LF7: 7T |
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