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| Gender differences in the community service use attitudes of older spousal caregiver-care recipient couples | | Author(s) | Bradley D Zodikoff |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 26, nos 2, 2007 |
| Pages | pp 1-20 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Spouses as carers ; Husbands ; Wives ; Attitude ; Usage [services] ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Spousal care recipients' attitudes towards service use within the caregiver-care recipient dyad context has consistently been overlooked. To fill this gap in knowledge, this exploratory study. used a purposive sample of 30 older spousal caregiver-care recipient couples in New York City; data was collected from both caregiver and care recipient, to compare their community service use by gender. Service use attitude measures were adapted from the Community Service Attitude Inventory. For the entire sample, caregivers and care recipients had similar attitude scores at the group level of comparison, In the caregiver sub-sample, female spousal caregivers reported a higher level of confidence in service system compared with male spousal caregivers. Compared with female spousal caregivers, male spousal caregivers reported a higher worry and fear attitude. In the care recipient sub-sample, female spousal care recipients reported a higher wait-and-see attitude compared with male spousal care recipients. The findings support the need to assess specific gender-related service use attitudes of older married couples. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-070618201 A |
| Classmark | P6:SN: SNA: SNW: DP: QLD: 48: 7T |
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