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Informal Caregivers: Helping Those Who Help

2023
The use of information and communication technologies to promote health literacy has become a working tool for health professionals during the pandemic caused by covid-19. Social isolation had a direct impact on involuntary caregivers, by taking more permanent care of their family members.
Águas, Dominique, Paço, Marisa, Henriques, Adriana, Coelho, Anabela, Costa, Andreia   +4 more
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Informal Caregivers

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2008
Communicating about care preferences can improve the well-being of caregivers and care recipients.
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Informal Caregiving

Medical Care, 2002
With an aging population and public policies that limit accessible and affordable formal care services, informal caregivers, largely women, will continue bearing the overwhelming responsibility for home and long-term care services provision.This study examined gender differences among informal caregivers in caregiving activities, intensity, challenges,
Maryam, Navaie-Waliser, Aubrey, Spriggs, Penny H, Feldman   +2 more
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Informal Caregivers’ Use of the Internet for Caregiving Information

Social Work in Health Care, 2015
Using data extracted from the Caregiving in the U.S. 2009 survey, this study describes caregivers' use of the Internet for caregiving information and identifies factors related to their use. This study includes 800 informal caregivers for community-residing older adults age 65 and over.
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The Representations of Caregiving in Informal Caregivers

The Family Journal
Informal caregiving is usually deemed stressful and an activity leading to worsening life conditions. Nevertheless, recent studies have suggested the possibility for an informal caregiver to simultaneously experience both positive and negative feelings, identifying in the positive assets the merit of raising resilience and a sense of self ...
Francesca Tricarico, Diego Romaioli, Anna Maria Meneghini   +2 more
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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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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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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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