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Informal Caregiving: Dilemmas of Sandwiched Caregivers

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2009
Increased demand will intensify pressures for informal caregiving, especially for sandwiched caregivers. Using 1999, National Long Term Care Survey data, we contrasted socio-demographic statistics, care environments, activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) assistance, life quality, and employment burden of ...
Rose M. Rubin, Shelley I. White-Means
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A Meta-analytic Study of Predictors for Informal Caregiver Burden in Patients With Stroke.

Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2018
BACKGROUND Several studies have reported on predictors for caregiver burden in patients with stroke, but the magnitude of the impact of these variables remains unclear.
Wei Zhu, Yan Jiang
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Tacit definitions of informal caregiving

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2001
Tacit definitions of informal caregiving Aims of the study: This study describes three tacit definitions of informal caregiving and explores the extent to which differences in these tacit definitions explain variation in caregivers’ negative mood over time.
J, Wrubel, T A, Richards, S, Folkman, M C, Acree   +3 more
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Caregiving burden among informal caregivers of people with disability

British Journal of Health Psychology, 2020
Objective Chinese informal caregivers experience burden due to their caregiving responsibilities that violate their belief of reciprocal parent–child relationship, but little is known about this burden and coping processes among Chinese.
Hao Fong Sit, Lei Huang, Kay Chang, Wai I Chau, Brian J. Hall   +4 more
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Caregiver Burden and Associated Factors Among Informal Caregivers of Stroke Survivors

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 2020
Supplemental digital content is available in the text. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Informal caregiving of stroke survivors often begins with intensity compared with the linear caregiving trajectories in progressive conditions.
Saviour Achilike, J. Beauchamp, S. Cron, M. Okpala, Samuel S. Payén, Lyric Baldridge, Nnedinma Okpala, Tahani Casameni Montiel, T. Varughese, Mary F Love, C. Fagundes, S. Savitz, A. Sharrief   +12 more
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Informal Care and Caregiver's Health: INFORMAL CARE AND CAREGIVER'S HEALTH

2015
This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters-in-law are the prevalent source of caregivers for frail elderly parents and parents-in-law.
Van Houtven, Courtney Harold, Stearns, Sally C., Do, Young Kyung, Norton, Edward C.   +3 more
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Sudden informal caregivers: the lived experience of informal caregivers after an unexpected event

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2011
Aim.  The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the lived experience of individuals taking on the role of informal adult caregivers after an unexpected event involving a relative.Background.  The literature on the development of the role of informal caregivers widely recognises that protecting and promoting the quality of life of ...
Helder Rocha, Pereira, Maria Antónia, Rebelo Botelho   +1 more
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The impact of informal caregiver's preparedness on short-term outcomes of heart failure patients with insufficient self-care.

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2022
M. Cheng, Chenya Zhu, Yingying Ge, Yufei Ke, Yixing Shi, Yue Su, Tianyu Ma, Meixuan Chi, Naijuan Wang, Bingqing Lu, Yunying Hou   +10 more
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Assessing Caregiver Information Needs

Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 1987
The type of information needed by caregivers of Alzheimer patients will vary, depending upon the stage of the caregiver's emotional acceptance of the illness and on the patient's condition. A brief questionnaire was developed to identify caregiver information needs.
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Paying informal caregivers.

Comprehensive gerontology. Section B, Behavioural, social, and applied sciences, 1989
The use of economic incentives in informal care exchanges is examined in the context of Norway's highly but not fully developed welfare state. Informal care has traditionally been unpaid. This may be changing. A random sample of 490 urban, working and lower middle class persons, 70 years of age and over, has shown that the majority feel that long-term ...
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