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| The impact of informal care-giving networks on adult children's care-giver burden | | Author(s) | Natalia Tolkacheva, Marjolein Broese van Groenou, Alice de Boer, Theo van Tilburg |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 31, part 1, January 2011 |
| Pages | pp 34-51 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Family care ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Adults ; Informal care ; Stress ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The global need for care of older parents is growing. This study investigated how the characteristics of Dutch informal care-giving networks affected the adult child's care-giving burden. It used information on 602 informal care-givers from a 2007 study on care-givers who were assisting their older parents. Participants reported on parental and personal characteristics, care activities, experienced burden and characteristics of other informal care-givers. Findings revealed that adult children experienced lower care-giver burden when the informal care-giving network size was larger, when more types of tasks were shared across the network, when care was shared for a longer period, and when the adult child had no disagreements with the other members of the network. The authors concluded that being in an informal care-giving network will be of increasing benefit for adult children involved in long-term care. More care-givers will turn into managers of care, as they increasingly have to organise the sharing of care among informal helpers and mediate disagreements among members of the network. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110224003 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: P6:SS: SD: P6: QNH: 76H |
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