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Caring for parents with Alzheimer's
— comparing perceptions of physical and mental health in the Jewish and Arab sectors in Israel | | Author(s) | Ariela Lowenstein |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 14, no 1, March 1999 |
| Pages | pp 65-76 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Children [offspring] as carers ; Well being ; Health [elderly] ; Jewish ; Arab ; Comparison ; Israel. |
| Annotation | This study examines the effects of demographic, ethnic, personal and familial resources on well-being - perceptions of physical and mental health - of children caring for parents with Alzheimer's disease (AD), comparing Jewish and Arab caregivers. Two groups of 64 Jewish and 50 Arab caregivers were selected from a cognitive diagnostic unit operating in a geriatric rehabilitative hospital in the north of Israel. The theoretical base was family systems and stress theories, using the ABCX model. According to the model, an external event (A) interacts with the family's ability to cope with the event (B) and with the family's perceptions of the stressor (C). This, in turn, can result in a crisis and in mental and physical problems (X). The model facilitates focus on the many family relationship variables that might affect the caregiving process. The results of the study show that ethnicity and parent-child relations were the strongest predictors of physical and especially mental health of these caregivers, followed by employment status of the caregivers and patient's functioning. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991012216 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SS: D:F:5HH: CC: TKS: TKR: 48: 7H6 |
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