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Caregiving, family burden and medication adherence [PDF]

, 2013
Caregivers are an essential component of any community. Advances in medical care have brought about an increasing population which is reliant on care, and communities deal with most of the burdens and practicalities of public health issues.
Ennis, Edel, Corry, Colette
core   +2 more sources

Analysis of factors influencing the burden on family caregivers of disabled older adults in Guangzhou

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the current status of disability among older adults and analyze factors influencing the burden on their family caregivers in southern China.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted among 334 pairs of disabled ...
Danrong Lin, Danrong Lin, Junbin Liao, Yanxi Liu, Yuquan Zhong, Jingyun Pan, Heng Fang, Yunfeng Lin, Yilu Yao, Jiewen Su, Bingjie Hu, Bingjie Hu, Wei Zhu, Wei Zhu   +13 more
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Weaving strength and care: Situated reflections on women's work and the epistemology of care in biological anthropology

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay examines how gendered expectations, structural precarity, and institutional hierarchies shape research practices, knowledge production, and career trajectories in biological anthropology. Taking the figure of the “strong woman” as an entry point, it questions celebratory narratives of resilience that frame endurance as an individual
Lumila Paula Menéndez
wiley   +1 more source

Caregiving burden reduces caregiving ability among older adult caregivers of older cancer patients through the chain mediating effect of psychological capital and social network: a cross-sectional study

陆军军医大学学报
Objective With accelerating population aging, the phenomenon of “old-to-old caregiving”—where individuals aged 60 years or older care for another elderly patient—has become increasingly prevalent among families of older cancer patients. While caregiving
Zhang Zixuan, Du Hua
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Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
wiley   +1 more source

Epilepsy surgery through a reproductive lifespan lens

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Aisha A. Abdulrazaq, Dorothee Kasteleijn‐Nolst Trenite, Torbjörn Tomson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assemblages of care: Moral economies, classed labor, and affective exhaustion among Karachi's working middle‐class women

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
wiley   +1 more source

Caregiver Burden in Prion Disease

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
Introduction: Caregiver burden significantly impacts patient and caregiver outcomes and is an important treatment consideration in dementia. Previous research has demonstrated that like behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, prion disease has higher levels of caregiver burden than other forms of dementia; however, limited prospective research has ...
Kovacevich, Alexsandra, Martin, John Thomas, Glisic, Kathleen, Ogrocki, Paula, Appleby, Brian S.   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Associations among caregiving difficulties, burden, and rewards in caregivers to older post-rehabilitation patients

, 1998
The associations between self-reported rewards and difficulties of caregiving and burden were examined in a sample of 200 informal caregivers to older post-rehabilitation patients.
Sara E. Riedel, Pat Langenberg, P. Langenberg, L. Fredman, Lisa Fredman, S. E. Riedel   +5 more
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Gendered affective infrastructure: Feminist epistemology and mutual support in a life‐history storytelling group of older Mizrahi women

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article conceptualizes life history groups as gendered affective infrastructure: relational, temporal, and interactional formations through which affect circulates, gendered pain is collectively held, and mortality is acknowledged. Rather than producing linear individual narratives, knowledge emerges through shared emotions, silences ...
Tal Shamur
wiley   +1 more source