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Cross cultural issues in caregiving for persons with dementia
— do familism values reduce burden and distress? | | Author(s) | Bob G Knight, Gia S Robinson, Crystal V Flynn Longmire |
| Journal title | Ageing International, vol 27, no 3, Summer 2002 |
| Pages | pp 70-93 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Stress ; Ethnic groups ; Cross cultural surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | While family caregiving for those with dementia has been recognised as a major stressor for more than 20 years, attention to the role of cultural values in influencing the stress and coping process of caregivers is rarely studied. The authors summarise studies from their lab group that include Latino, Korean, Korean-American, Japanese-American and African-American caregivers. The role of familism as a cultural value that was assumed to lead to a greater acceptance of the caregiving role and its better mental health outcomes for caregivers was explored in each of these ethnic groups. As expected, familism was found to vary across groups based on acculturation to Western values of individualism. However, the relationship of familism to caregiving burden was not consistent across ethnic groups, and was either independent of caregiving outcomes, or was positively correlated with distress. These results suggest that assumptions about cultural influences on caregiving need to be empirically re-examined and explored in greater depth. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021111204 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: QNH: TK: 3KA: 7T |
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