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Impacts of care-giving and sources of support
 — a comparison of end-of-life and non-end-of-life caregivers in Canada
Author(s)Allison M Williams, Li Wang, Peter Kitchen
Journal titleHealth and Social Care in the Community, vol 24, no 2, March 2016
PublisherWiley, March 2016
Pagespp 214-224
Sourcewileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/hsc
KeywordsFamily care ; Attitude ; Terminal care ; Qualitative Studies ; Canada.
AnnotationThis is the second in a series of papers that deal with care-giving in Canada, as based on data available from Statistics Canada's General Social Survey ((GSS Cycle 21: 2007). The GSS includes three modules, where respondents were asked questions about the unpaid home care assistance that they had provided in the last 12 months to someone at end of life( EOL) or with either a long-term health condition or a physical limitation. This paper uniquely examines the caregiver supports employed by EOL caregivers when compared to non-EOL caregivers (short-term and long-term caregivers combined). It builds on the authors' first paper (Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 22, no 2, pp 187-196), which reviewed the differences between short-term, long-term and end-of-life caregivers. The objective of this paper was to investigate the link between the impact of the care-giving experience and the caregiver supports received, while also examining the differences in these across EOL and non-EOL caregivers. The authors use factor analysis and regression modelling to examine differences between the two types of caregivers. The study revealed that with respect to socio-demographic characteristics, health outcomes and caregiver supports, EOL caregivers were consistently worse off. This suggests that although all non-EOL caregivers are experiencing negative impacts from their care-giving role, comparatively greater supports are needed for EOL caregivers. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-160226202 A
ClassmarkP6:SJ: DP: LV: 3DP: 7S

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