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Mental health of carers
— special section | | Author(s) | G M Charlesworth |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 10, no 2, March 2006 |
| Pages | pp 71-133 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Mental health [elderly] ; Emotions ; Well being ; Family care. |
| Annotation | This issue of Aging & Mental Health includes six papers relating to the emotional well-being of family carers, and report studies from the UK, the US, Japan and the Netherlands. Gilliam and Stefan look at the relationship between caregiving self-efficacy and depressive symptoms in dementia family caregivers. Croog and colleagues look in further detail at the relationships between mental state and responses to caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Martin et al describe a pilot study on the associations between entrapment, shame, guilt and depression in carers of people with dementia. Schreiner et al use the Zarit Burden Inventory (ZBI) to search for an appropriate cut-off score for identifying level of burden that indicates that a carer is at risk of depression. Droes and colleagues look at the effect of the Meeting Centres Support Program (MSCP) on family carers. Lastly, Miller et al examine the experience of non-cognitively impaired care recipients at the hands of their potentially harmful "caring" relatives. Charlesworth's editorial introduces these papers in relation to previous research regarding carers' emotional experiences. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061107001 A |
| Classmark | D: DL: D:F:5HH: P6:SJ |
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