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The impact of family caregiver attitudes on the use of community services for dementia care
Author(s)	David J Pedlar, David E Biegel
Journal title	Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 18, no 2, June 1999
Pages	pp 201-221
Keywords	Family care ; Attitude ; Dementia ; Community care ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Canada.
Annotation	The role of caregiver attitudinal variables is examined, while controlling for other variables in explaining the use of home-making, personal care, transport, and caregiver services, and the number of services used in a sample of 82 wives of dementia care recipients living in the community in Canada. Seven scales measuring caregiver attitudes were empirically developed. Attitudes representing caregiver preference for informal care, trust in service providers, and service inconvenience were associated with community service use. Together, the seven scales representing caregiver attitudes improved the explanatory models developed to explain the use of home-making services, caregiver services, and the number of types of community services used, but not the models that explain the use of personal care or transport services. These findings support the use of taking caregiver attitudes into account in attempts to understand community service use in dementia care. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990728236 A
Classmark	P6:SJ: DP: EA: PA: I: QLD: 7S
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