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The impact of caregiving for a relative with Alzheimer's disease
— a comparison of those caring for persons living alone, spousal caregivers, and co-resident adult children | | Author(s) | Carole B Cox, Kara Albisu |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 9 no 1, Spring 2003 |
| Pages | 23-34 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Living alone ; Informal care ; Spouses as carers ; Living with family ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from this study were collected from 800 caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or a related disorder, participants from the US Alzheimer's Connections Demonstration Program. The study focused on the ways in which caregivers' living arrangements may relate to their experiences and interest in specific services. The findings indicate that caregivers not living with AD patients care for the least impaired, but are the most worried and the most interested in residential care placements. Spouses or adult children living with AD patients did not differ in functional status, but co-residing children were more likely to describe the person's symptoms as severe. Both these groups of caregivers were interested in services, although the factors influencing this interest varied. These findings suggest that to be effective and used, practitioners must design interventions that are sensitive to the needs of specific caregiving groups. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031121207 A |
| Classmark | EA: K8: P6: P6:SN: KA:SJ: P6:SS: 48: 7T |
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