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Primary family caregivers of impaired elderly in Shanghai, China
— kin relationship and caregiver burden | | Author(s) | Rosemary Santana Cooney, Juxin Di |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 21, no 6, November 1999 |
| Pages | pp 739-761 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Mental disorder ; Family relationships ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Stress ; China. |
| Annotation | Kin differences in caregiver burden are investigated using a 1989 survey of impaired older people and their caregivers from Shanghai, China. Indicators of caregiver burden include feelings of fatigue, loss of personal time, and expressed need for formal service support. To explain kin differences, four factors are analysed: caregiving involvement; an older person's need for care; familial support; and sociodemographic characteristics of the caregiver. Findings indicate that wives and married daughters express the greatest feelings of fatigue and loss of personal time. Kin differences on these dimensions are explained by caregiving involvement and an older person's need for care. In contrast, the child generation - particularly married sons and daughters-in-law - express the need for formal service support. This is related to their greater reliance on familial support from non co-residing relatives and to sociodemographic characteristics reflecting a less traditional cultural organisation and greater economic resources to pay for services. Implications for service delivery are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991201205 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: E: DS:SJ: F: QNH: 7DC |
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