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The Unexpected Career
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By
Carol Aneshensel, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Leonard Pearlin, University of California, San Francisco and University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.
Joseph Mullan, University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Steven Zarit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, U.S.A.
Carol Whitlatch, University of California, San Francisco, and The Benjamin Rose Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Description
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.
Audience
Gerontological researchers, mental health practitioners, research professionals in clinical and counseling psychology, and individuals who currently, or expect to, care for someone with dementia.
Contents
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 Patient
Death 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.
References.
Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 385 pages, publication date: SEP-1995
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-059540-2
ISBN-10: 0-12-059540-0
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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