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Caregiving
— predicting at-risk status | | Author(s) | Neena L Chappell, Carren Dujela |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 27, no 2, Summer 2008 |
| Pages | pp 169-180 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Stress ; Well being ; Measurement ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Despite the focus of burden of caregiving in gerontological research, studies have shown that few caregivers are overly burdened. This article compares predictors of role-specific burden and two quality of life measures among caregivers experiencing heavy care demands, to assess role impact on each. The study included 92 community-based caregivers on Vancouver Island. Predictors included primary stressors, personal resources and socio-demographic factors. Demands of caregiving emerged as the most significant correlate of role-specific burden and was important for overall well-being indirectly, through burden. Resilience was an important correlate of all three outcomes. Over the year of the study, caregivers improved all three outcomes examined, but the authors were unsuccessful in predicting that change. Findings suggest that caregivers can be burdened and simultaneously experience good or high well-being, pointing to the importance of not generalising from studies restricted only to caregiver burden in making recommendations about these people's overall lives. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081125201 A |
| Classmark | P6: QNH: D:F:5HH: 3R: 3J: 7S |
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