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Family caregiving to elderly African Americans
— caregiver types and structures | | Author(s) | Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Sharon Wallace Williams, Theresa Cooper |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp S237-241 |
| Keywords | Black people ; Family care ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Different types of caregivers were distinguished by their level of responsibility and caregiving tasks in a community sample of 330 caregivers caring for 202 older African Americans. Multinomial logistic regression predicted what type of caregiving structure was created by families to provide care for older relatives. Three types of caregiver were identified: 187 caregivers, who were connected to 79 secondary caregivers and 49 tertiary caregivers. 15 tertiary-only caregivers who were not connected to other caregivers were identified. Five caregiving structures were found: (i) primary, secondary, and tertiary; (ii) primary and secondary; (iii) primary and tertiary; (iv) primary only; and (v) tertiary only. Characteristics of care recipients were predictive of caregiving structures. Different types of caregivers with distinct roles and responsibilities provided care within defined caregiving structures to older African American family members. Caregiving structure is predicted by the care recipients' conditions and situations, but not those of the primary caregiver. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220216 A |
| Classmark | TKE: P6:SJ: F: 7T |
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