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Respite use by dementia caregivers — preferences and reasons for initial use
Author(s)	Victoria Cotrell
Journal title	Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 26, nos 3/4, 1996
Pages	pp 35-55
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Services ; Short term ; Dementia ; Family care ; Day sitting ; Day services ; Night attendance ; Usage [services] ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Qualitative analysis of open-ended responses provided a dynamic perspective of respite use among caregivers of relatives with dementia. 100 spouses and adult children were interviewed regarding their use of respite services. Differences between spouses, co-residing adult children, and adult children living elsewhere emerged. They differed in their preferences for method of service delivery (i.e. sitter, daycare, overnight), their perceptions of usefulness of services, their emotional response to the service, and the situations or events that were perceived as prompting service use. There were no differences in the care recipient's level of functional impairment across the three groups. Adult children and spousal caregivers may form three distinct populations that utilise respite services in different ways.
Accession Number	CPA-970425003 A
Classmark	I: 4P: EA: P6:SJ: NE: NM: NEN: QLD: 3F: 7T
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