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| Correlates of Alzheimer's disease caregivers' support group attendance | | Author(s) | Diane K Martichuski, Barbara L Knight, Nancy J Karlin |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation & Aging, vol 21, no 4, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 27-40 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Self help organisations ; Usage [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | To help alleviate some of the burden experienced by Alzheimer's disease (AD) caregivers in a caregiving role which may last several years, professionals offer many services, including educational programmes, skills training, and support groups. Most common are support groups, which can be very helpful, yet many caregivers do not attend them. The present study surveyed 174 AD caregivers who either (a) never have attended a support group ("Nevers"), (b) caregivers who are currently attending ("Currents"), or (c) caregivers who had stopped attending ("Formers"). The results of the study showed that Nevers felt less burdened, reported getting enough social support and had higher functioning AD patients; and that Currents felt more burden, wanted more social support, and had lower functioning AD patients. In addition, Nevers and Formers were asked why they did not attend support groups. Many reasons are logistical, and might easily be remedied by a change of time or day of meeting. Other reasons are personal or social, and would be more difficult to manage. These barriers to participation as well as suggestions for alleviating these barriers are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980625204 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: PQ: QLD: 7T |
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