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The impact of a parent's dementia on adult offspring and their spouses
— the contribution of family characteristics | | Author(s) | Morton A Lieberman, Lawrence Fisher |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 5, no 3, Fall 1999 |
| Pages | pp 207-222 |
| Keywords | Stress ; Family care ; Dementia ; Multi generation families ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Recent research has indicated that characteristics of the family system are associated with how well the patient and the family manage chronic disease over time. The authors have studied how the stresses and strains of a family's care for an older relative with dementia have rippled through the family system to affect other non-disease-related family role functioning in 78 three-generation families. They also studied how characteristics of the patient's family system reduced or exacerbated these effects. Hierarchical multiple regression equations examined the associations of three domains of family variables on the marital strain reported by spouses, after controlling for offspring/in-law gender, severity of patient illness, and offspring's carer strain. Each of the three control variables was significantly associated with in-law marital strain, with male in-laws reporting more marital strain than female in-laws. Strong support for cross-generational boundaries, good family organisation, and conflict avoidance served as protective effects, containing the stresses of caregiving from affecting other role behaviours, whereas family life engagement and emotional distance served as risk factors. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991022219 A |
| Classmark | QNH: P6:SJ: EA: SJC: F: 7T |
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