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Coping with family caregiving to persons with dementia — a critical review
Author(s)	B H Gottlieb, J Wolfe
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 6, no 4, November 2002
Pages	pp 325-342
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Family care ; Health [elderly] ; Adjustment ; Social surveys ; Literature reviews.
Annotation	The authors critically review 17 empirical studies that relate family caregivers' ways of coping to their health and morale. The aim is to determine whether there is any consensus regarding ways of coping that serve health-protective functions, and whether the studies' designs and measurement strategies are faithful to the transactional theory of coping upon which they are founded. Limitations to the interpretability of the cumulative body of empirical findings on caregiver coping are questionable, and include: the use of cross-sectional designs; the adoption of different coping and outcome measures; the lack of specificity and the incomparability of the target stressors; the reliance on retrospective reports; and the use of inappropriate response formats. Ways of strengthening and broadening coping research to make it more fruitful and theoretically coherent are presented. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-021216531 A
Classmark	EA: P6:SJ: CC: DR: 3F: 64A
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