Download or read book Age Differences in Caregiver Burden written by Kelsey Bacharz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite over a quarter of informal caregivers in the United States being young adults, a majority of caregiving research focuses on middle-aged and older adults. The limited literature on young adult caregivers indicates that caregivers at this age may experience more burden than older caregivers, along with distinct risk factors for burden (Becker & Becker, 2008a; Levine et al., 2005). The purpose of this study was to comparethe levels of burden in caregivers across the lifespan and to test whether support and preparedness for caregiving also vary in ways that could explain the potential age differences in burden. Self-identified caregivers (n = 452) were recruited online to complete questionnaires and demographic questions. As hypothesized, when compared to older caregivers, young caregivers reported more subjective burden despite lower objective burden, but contrary to hypotheses young adults reported similar preparation for caregiving, higher social and instrumental support. The hypothesized mediating effects of preparedness, social support, and instrumental support between age and subjective burden were not found. The results indicate that age plays a role in differing perceptions of the caregiving experience likely due to the caregiving context related to age (i.e., relationship status and relation to caregiver), rather than age itself. Future research should focus on how the caregiving context impacts caregiver burden and what practices may be implemented to decrease that burden.
Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Download or read book Age Differences in Stressors and Outcomes Among Young Adult Midlife and Older Adult Caregivers written by Athena Koumoutzis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young adult caregivers report poorer mental health than young adults who do not provide care; however, few studies compare young adults' caregiving experiences to caregivers in other life stages. This study utilizes Pearlin's Stress Process Model (1990) to examine age differences in primary stressors (caregiver burden which includes hours of provided care, number of ADLs performed, and number of IADLs performed), secondary stressors (financial and employment strains), and caregiver outcomes (emotional strain and physical health). This study also examines the associations between primary and secondary stressors and caregiver outcomes, including the degree to which associations vary by age group. Data are from the Caregiving in the United States 2015 dataset (N = 1215) and participants include young adults ages 18-39 years (n = 239), midlife adults ages 40-59 years (n = 485), and older adults ages 60-80 years (n = 491). ANOVA results revealed age similarities and significant age differences in stressors and caregiver outcomes. Post hoc tests indicated that young adult caregivers reported less caregiver burden and greater financial strain compared with older adults. Young adult caregivers reported fewer negative effects to physical health compared to middle-aged adults. Linear regression analyses revealed that financial strain was associated with more emotional strain and greater negative effects to physical health for all respondents.
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Download or read book Psychology and Geriatrics written by Benjamin A. Bensadon and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology and Geriatrics demonstrates the value of integrating psychological knowledge and insight with medical training and geriatric care. Leading physician and geropsychologist contributors come together to share their collective wisdom about topics that are as emotionally uncomfortable as they are universally relevant. As the world struggles to respond to unprecedented gains in life expectancy and an explosion of new retirees living with chronic health conditions, this collaboration could not be more timely. This exceptional resource is, itself, evidence that physicians and psychologists can work together to optimize truly patient-centered geriatric care. Here at last is a scientifically rigorous, evidence-based response to the aging mind and body from those most expertly trained. - Illustrates why and how psychologists must assume a more integrated role in meeting the health care needs of older patients - Confronts emotionally laden topics such as cognitively impaired driving, caregiver burden, end-of-life communication, suicide, and systemic issues such as bias, payment, and the culture of medicine - Challenges decades-long barriers to integration, from both physician and psychologist perspectives, suggesting how they can finally be overcome - Provides an innovative, practical response to academic medicine's growing emphasis on psychological and behavioral science - Demonstrates how health care reform creates a behavioral health niche that clinical psychologists are uniquely qualified to fill
Download or read book How Caregiving Affects Development written by Kim Shifren and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Caregiving Affects Development: Psychological Implications for Child, Adolescent, and Adult Caregivers examines these effects using a life span development framework. Each chapter presents theory and empirical research on caregiving during a different phase in the life span, including childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young, middle, and older adulthood. Within the context of the caregiver's life, the chapter authors examine how the role of caregiver affects development."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Profiles in Caregiving written by Carol S. Aneshensel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are living longer lives. Proportionally speaking, a greater percentage of the population is elderly. Despite medical advances, there is still no cure for dementia, and as elderly individuals succumb to Alzheimer's Disease or related dementia, more and more people are having to care their elderly parents and /or siblings. Profiles in Caregiving is practical source of information for anyone who teaches caregiving, acts as a caregiver, or studies caregiving. This book discusses recent research on stress factors associated with caregiving, and what factors impact on successful versus non-successful adaptation to the care-giving role. This is an expanding field in gerontology, and is also of interest to personality and social psychologists studying stress and interpersonal relations. Although there are many books on the cause and treatment of dementia, there has been a book that provides a research investigation into the factors associated with effective caregiving to dementia patients. - Conceptualizes caregiving as a multistage career whose impact on the caregiver continues to be felt after in-home care has ceased - Based upon a longitudinal survey of a demographically diverse sample of principal caregivers over a three-year period - Identifies caregivers who are most at-risk for adverse adaptation to the role - Describes preventative and clinical intervention strategies - Identifies post-care risk and issues - Identifies antecedents to successful adaptation - State of the art analytic techniques - Graphic presentation of empirical findings - Renowned multidisciplinary research team
Download or read book Age is But a Number written by Kristen N. Hardin-Sigler and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-10-16 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good-or equally poor-health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than older Blacks and tend to outlive them. But Whites tend to be in poorer health than Hispanics and Asian Americans. This volume documents the differentials and considers possible explanations. Selection processes play a role: selective migration, for instance, or selective survival to advanced ages. Health differentials originate early in life, possibly even before birth, and are affected by events and experiences throughout the life course. Differences in socioeconomic status, risk behavior, social relations, and health care all play a role. Separate chapters consider the contribution of such factors and the biopsychosocial mechanisms that link them to health. This volume provides the empirical evidence for the research agenda provided in the separate report of the Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.
Download or read book Home Care in Europe written by Rosanna Tarricone and published by WHO Regional Office Europe. This book was released on 2008 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographic, epidemiological, social and cultural trends in European countries are changing the traditional patterns of care. The next decades will see rising numbers of care-dependent older people and noncommunicable diseases as the leading cause of chronic illness and disability. Further, urbanization and the break-up of the traditional large family group will lead to gaps in the care of older or disabled family members. These changes in needs and social structure require a different approach to policy and services in the health and social sectors; a disease-oriented approach alone is no longer appropriate. Home care could be an answer to these issues: a sustainable approach to prevent the need for unnecessary acute or long-term institutionalization and to maintain people in their homes and communities as long as possible. Along with new forms of service delivery organization, technological innovation can represent a viable solution to developing home care in Europe, provided that health care systems can further enhance integration and coordination. This publication is part of the work of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to present evidence for health policy- and decision-makers in a clear and understandable form. It explains why health and social services should provide high-quality and targeted home care for disabled and older people. It provides evidence for the effectiveness of home care, shows how it can be improved, and explains the need to ensure equitable access. The publication also explores the varied cultural and care contexts in different countries, and reveals how to educate professionals and the public about these issues. This booklet seeks to broaden awareness, stimulate debate and promote action.
Download or read book The New Face of Caregiving written by Courtney Marie Demko and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the older adult population increases in the United States, more young adults will become family caregivers. This study examines the multidimensional factors associated with caregiver burden among young adult caregivers aged 18-34 years old caring for a loved one aged 50 and over. The theory of Emerging Adulthood reinforces the importance of studying young adult caregivers. The theory illustrates how young adults are at a "critical developmental stage" of identity exploration in "love, work and worldviews" and adding on the role of caregiving could be particularly challenging compared to older generations of caregivers (Arnett, 2000 p. 469). The Stress Process Model explores the socio-demographic factors, primary stressors and secondary stressors of young adult caregivers aged 18-34 years old compared to caregivers over the age of 35 years old using the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP's 2015 Caregiving in the U.S. nationally representative survey data (n = 1,228). The data were collected through randomly selected online interviews among adults aged 18 and older. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis revealed that increasing instrumental activities of daily living and younger age of the caregiver was associated with an increase in young adult's caregiver burden. Findings also revealed that instrumental younger caregivers, race, activities of daily living caregivers, activities of daily living of the caregivers, caregiving hours per week, being unemployed, workplace impacts and care recipient's with Alzheimer's disease were related to higher caregiver burden among caregivers over the age of 35 years old. Interactions effects also showed a statistically significant difference between caregivers 18-34 years old and caregivers 35 and over in ADLs with caregiver burden. This shows that the average effect of ADLs on caregiver burden depends on the age of the caregiver. For caregivers 35 and over, the higher the number of ADLs the higher the level of caregiver burden, whereas caregivers 18-34 years old with the same number of ADLs as caregivers 35 and over had lower caregiver burden. No other significant interactions were found with caregiver age and caregiver burden.The findings show that young adult caregivers need tailored policies, programs and practices to assist with instrumental activities of daily living. In addition, younger age contributed to caregiver burden among caregivers aged 18-34 years old and therefore more programs and policies should be aimed towards younger caregivers within the millennial cohort.
Download or read book Age Gender Incontinence and Mobility written by Beverly Towner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Development written by Diane E. Papalia and published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Experience a program that connects students to the real world. Our Milestones video program allows students to witness real life as it unfolds via a customizable, assignable and assessible platform. Additionally, our new Research in Action feature highlights interesting and timely topics. Experience the diversity of the human experience. The 12th edition of this classic best-seller retains the extensive and integrated cross-cultural and multicultural coverage as previous editions. Experience a program that helps students navigate the vast amount of material in the course. Now with Connect Lifespan, Papalia 12e allows students to connect with real life and the real world. Connect Psychology with LearnSmart, our adaptive learning system, is designed to help students learn faster, study more efficiently, and retain more knowledge for greater success ..."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Aging and the Family written by Patricia Neff Claster and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes a crucial contribution by collating research on aging and the family from an international perspective. Providing this wide scope of quality research, the volume equips readers to better assess how aging and its related issues are affecting families from multiple backgrounds.
Download or read book The Caregiving Trap written by Pamela D. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Caregiving Trap" combines the authentic life and professional experience of Pamela D. Wilson, who provides recommendations for overwhelmed and frustrated caregivers who themselves may one day need care. "The Caregiving Trap" includes stories about Pamela's actual personal and professional experience along with end of chapter exercises to support caregivers. Common caregiving issues include: A sense of duty and obligation to provide care that damages family relationships Emotional and financial challenges resulting in denial of care needs Ignorance of predictive events that result in situations of crises or harm Delayed decision making and lack of planning resulting in limited choices Minimum standards of care supporting the need for advocacy
Download or read book Fair Play written by Eve Rodsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the “shefault” parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family—and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was...underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With 4 easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore, from laundry to homework to dinner. “Winning” this game means rebalancing your home life, reigniting your relationship with your significant other, and reclaiming your Unicorn Space—the time to develop the skills and passions that keep you interested and interesting. Stop drowning in to-dos and lose some of that invisible workload that's pulling you down. Are you ready to try Fair Play? Let's deal you in.
Download or read book The Hidden Victims of Alzheimer s Disease written by Steven H. Zarit and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1985-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable resource guide for anyone working with persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease, this is the first book to present a step-by-step program to help families cope with the day-to-day problems arising from this disease. Using detailed case examples, the authors offer unique and effective strategies to help the family—and the patient—have enjoyable and more productive lives. "Well written and eminently practical guide for families struggling with the burdens of Alzheimer's disease." —Peter V. Rabins, M.D., John Hopkins University School of Medicine, author of Thirty-Six Hour Day "An outstanding book dealing knowledgeably and sensitively with a painful disease affecting millions of American familes." —Robert N. Butler, M.D., Brookdale Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
