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Profiles in Caregiving
The Unexpected Career
1st Edition - September 7, 1995
Authors: Carol S. Aneshensel, Leonard I. Pearlin, Joseph T. Mullan, Steven H. Zarit, Carol J. Whitlatch
Language: English
eBook ISBN:9780080539836
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Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are living longer lives. Proportionally speaking, a greater percentage of the population is el…Read more
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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
Gerontological researchers, mental health practitioners, research professionals in clinical and counseling psychology, and individuals who currently, or expect to, care for someone with dementia
Setting the Stage:Introduction.The Aging of the Population and the Need for Family Care.The Late-Life Dementias.The Epidemiology of Late-Life Dementia.Precursory Commentary.Caregiving Careers and Stress Processes:Caregiving as a Career.Stages and Transitions in Caregiving Careers.Alternative Career Paths for Caregiving.Caregiving and the Stress Process.The Synergistic Convergence of Caregiving Careers and the Stress Process.An Empirical Inquiry into Caregiving:Origins of the theoretical Framework and Methods.Caregivers and Their Impaired Relatives.Measurement Strategy.Data Analysis Strategies.Summary.The Organization of Stressors in the Lives of Caregivers:The Onset of Caregiving.The Primary Stressors of Caregiving.The Creation of Secondary Stressors.Extrinsic Stressors.The Social Context of Caregiving.Summary.Discussion.The Natural History of Care-Related Stress:The Course of Primary Stressors over Time.The Course of Secondary Stressors over Time.Individual Patterns of Stability and Change.Summary.Discussion.Stress Proliferation:Structural and Interpersonal Foundations of Stress Proliferation.roliferation over the Short-Term.Proliferation over the Long-Term.Summary.Discussion.The Containment of Care-Related Stressors:Psychosocial Resources: Social Support and Mastery.Resources and Their Naturalistic Interventions.Resources as Stress Mediators and Moderators.The Independent Effects of Psychosocial Resources.The Long-Term Impact of Psychosocial Resources.Summary.Discussion.The Transition to Institutional Care:The Average Course of In-Home Care.The Timing of Institutionalization.Catalysts for Institutionalization.The Family Context of Institutionalization.Institutionalization as a Stressor.Summary.Discussion.Adaptation Following Institutionalization:Continuity and Change in the Caregiver Role.The Impact of Institutionalization.Caregivers' Adaptation to Placement.Long-Term Institutionalized Caregiving.Summary.Discussion.The Timing and Settings of Patient Death:Patterns of Mortality Among Care Recipients.Health Status and Mortality.The Impact of Institutionalization.Summary.Discussion.Bereavement:Continuities and Discontinuities in the Stress Process along the Caregiving Career.The Immediate Impact of the Death of the Dementia PatientDeath and Grief.The Long-Term Impact of the Death of the Dementia Patient.Summary.Discussion.Clinical Interventions and Caregiving Careers:Intervention Strategies across the Caregiving Career.Clinical Intervention and the Stress Process.Basic Premises.The Need for Early Intervention: Role Acquisition.Interventions for the Long Haul: Rose Enactment.Adjustments During Bereavement: Rose Disengagement.Types of Clinical Approaches.Concluding Comments.Implications for Public Policy and Society:The Policy Conundrum: Addressing Diverging Interests.Directions for Public Policy and Caregiving.Ethics and Public Policy.Concluding Comments.A Review and Overview of Caregiving Careers:The Caregiving Career.The Care-Related Stress Process:In Retrospect.Closing Commentary.
No. of pages: 385
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: September 7, 1995
Imprint: Academic Press
eBook ISBN: 9780080539836
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Carol S. Aneshensel
Affiliations and expertise
School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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Leonard I. Pearlin
Affiliations and expertise
University of California, San Francisco and University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
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Joseph T. Mullan
Affiliations and expertise
University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A.
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Steven H. Zarit
Affiliations and expertise
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S.A.
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Carol J. Whitlatch
Affiliations and expertise
University of California, San Francisco, and The Benjamin Rose Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.