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The relationship between care-recipient behaviors and spousal caregiving stress
Author(s)	Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, Michael Raschick
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 44, no 3, June 2004
Pages	pp 318-327
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Stress ; Behaviour disorders ; Spouses as carers ; Husbands ; Wives ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Gender differences in spousal caregiver stress associated with care recipient problem behaviours and helping behaviours are examined. Using data from the US National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS), the authors examined bivariate and multivariate relationships between the behaviours of care recipients and the stress experienced by their spouses. Gender differences in caregiver stress emerged with respect to problem behaviours and helping behaviours of the care recipient. Helping behaviours had a moderating effect on the relationship between care recipient problem behaviours and stress for caregiving husbands, but not for caregiving wives. As practitioners attempt to reduce spousal caregiving distress, they should assess the extent to which care recipients' problem behaviours and efforts to be helpful contribute to caregiver stress. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040816201 A
Classmark	QNH: EP: P6:SN: SNA: SNW: 3F: 7T
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