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Family Caregiving at Home

Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional, 2002
PPS has demanded that we teach caregivers to assist while receiving home care and upon discharge. This article focuses on what home care nurses need to know to adequately prepare families for the caregiving experience. Specific strategies for efficiently facilitating caregiver support including assessment, specific problems, and resource and referral ...
Susanne, Weiland, Teresa, Shellenbarger
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Caregiving and Multigenerational Families

The Gerontologist, 1991
This paper examines the possibility that the extension of traditional family household boundaries foreshadows an expanded caregiving system as family lines grow longer. An original study of 25 four-generation families, mapping all linear and lateral members, offers findings that confirm evidence found in a literature review.
M, Baum, M, Page
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Confidentiality and the Family as Caregiver

Psychiatric Services, 1992
Many families provide mentally ill relatives with a residence and other support. Although professionals increasingly acknowledge the importance of the supportive role families play, families continue to report that they receive too little information from professionals about the patient, particularly when the family acts as caregiver.
J P, Petrila, R L, Sadoff
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Family caregivers and caregiving in dementia

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology, 2005
The alarming statistics of dementia are now widely acknowledged. The most recent estimates indicate 24.3 million suffer from this condition worldwide, with a new case being diagnosed every seven seconds. For the person afflicted, it robs him of his identity and, in the opinion of many, even his personhood. For family members, bereavement can begin from
LKP Yap, CCD Seow, LM Henderson, YNJ Goh
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