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From caregiving to bereavement
— trajectories of depressive symptoms among wife and daughter caregivers | | Author(s) | Lydia W Li |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp P190-P198 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Wives as carers ; Daughters as carers ; Bereavement ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As well as examining trajectories of depressive symptoms for wife and daughter caregivers during the transition from caregiving to bereavement, this study also investigated whether the trajectory varies by caregivers' caregiving stress, social support and background characteristics. Hierarchical linear modelling was used to analyse four-wave longitudinal data collected for the Well-Being of Women (WBW) study in Wisconsin from 157 wife and daughter caregivers, whose relatives had died. Results show that, on average, caregivers experience increasing depressive symptoms as their care recipients approach death, and they experience decreasing symptoms after. Care recipients' problematic behaviour and caregivers' kinship, income and feelings of overload moderate the change in depressive symptoms during the transition. Services to support caregivers should target specific groups of caregivers, based on caregiving experience and background characteristics, at times when they are most in need. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051121215 A |
| Classmark | P6:SNW: P6:SSH: DW: ENR: CT: 3J: 7T |
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