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| The impact of social resources on the Alzheimer's disease caregiving experience | | Author(s) | Jon C Stuckey, Kathleen A Smyth |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 19, no 4, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 423-441 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Personal relationships ; Health [elderly] ; Dementia ; Family care ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Research into the relationships between social resources and health outcomes has been hindered by a lack of clarity in the conceptualisations of key social resources such as social ties and social support. This article presents evidence that social ties and social support are separate constructs and should be treated as such. Questionnaires were sent to 262 US caregivers, asking them about their caregiving experiences and their health and social networks. Findings showed that measures of social resources were only moderately to weakly inter-correlated. The social resource measures behaved differently as predictors of caregiver burden, physical well-being and emotional well-being in a path analysis, and the subjective perception of adequacy of social ties was more relevant to explaining health outcomes than was an objective number of social ties. The study concluded that researchers must clearly and consistently operationally define measures used to examine relationships between social resources and health outcomes if these enigmatic connections are to be fully understood. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980723402 A |
| Classmark | P6: DS: CC: EA: P6:SJ: 7T |
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