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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Informal caregiving"”.
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Changes in Formal-Informal Caregiving in Elderly Stroke Survivors
… and longitudinal differences in the caregiving source among stroke survivors (n=477) over a six-year period. This study involves a secondary analysis of a longitudinal panel study focusing upon three waves of interview data from the HAS/AHEAD study spanning 1998 through 2002. …
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Determinants of spouse/partner informal caregiving and its impacts on informal caregivers' physical, psychological health and economic well-being: evidence from the health and retirement study
… societal costs that may only surface when the informal caregivers grow older themselves. For example, intense caregiving can negatively impact the caregivers’ long-term physical, mental/psychological, and economic well-being. However, the determinants of caregiving duration and their impacts on …
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Unmet Needs And Service Utilization by Informal Caregivers
… the ability to locate quality and affordable informal caregiving options has become an essential need. Aging adults with chronic conditions, especially those with a high disease burden, have significant limitations in their ability to carry out day-to-day activities, have higher psychosocial …
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Message Convergence in Information Seeking and Decision Making among Adult Children Regarding their Parent's Diagnosis
<p>Adult children have a unique role in caregiving and decision-making for a parent diagnosed with a life-threatening illness or condition. In this qualitative study, 15 individuals participated in one-on-one interviews to share their experience seeking information for their parent’s …
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“We laugh and cry together”: how do hairstylists experience the provision of social support to their clients?
… of social support, emotional labour, and informal caregiving. Research indicates that clients often disclose personal problems to hairstylists that closely resemble those presented to mental health professionals, suggesting that individuals may engage with this informal support channel …
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Engaging Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease in Exercise: Impact on Caregivers
In 2020, over 11 million informal caregivers cared for 6.5 million older adults with Alzheimer’s disease in America. By 2050 the number of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease is projected to double, which will demand the need for more informal caregivers. Family most often serve as informal …
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Family caregiving, home medical devices, and the sociotechnical system: Bringing the biomedical sciences into the bioethics discourse
Informal caregiving by family members has been a substantial, cost-effective resource for the medical system. More recently, complex devices have made it possible to sustain patient's lives at home in more acute situations for longer periods of time. The arguments supporting the use of home care …
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The Long-Term Costs of Caring: How Caring for an Aging Parent Impacts Wealth Trajectories of Caregivers
… aging population exerts pressure on formal and informal care systems. Public expenditures on formal care are increasing rapidly, even as reliance on informal caregivers expands. Recent policy innovations are shifting Medicaid and Medicare funding toward home- and community-based services: HCBS) …
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Caregiving in Later Life: A Contextual Approach to the Provision of Care
… this study examined the frequency of caregiving provided by older adults to kin and non-kin. A telephone survey produced a random sample of adults 60 years of age and older, which was predominantly White, with higher income and education levels (n = 278). Bivariate and multivariate …
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Experiences of Living with a Partner with Depression: A Thematic Analysis
… helped establish the idea that the provision of informal care warrants attention because of the relationship between caring and burden. It has been suggested that living with someone with depression is comparable to that of other serious mental health problems, such as schizophrenia or dementia. …
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Revealing the Information-Seeking Experiences and Needs of Older Adults in a Rural Saskatchewan Community
… provides opportunity for information exchange. Informal caregiving practices and volunteerism within the community increases information flow, and improves the likelihood that information will reach even vulnerable older adults. Overall, this study finds that more needs to be done to improve …
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An Examination of Caregiving Dyads: Community Dwelling Chronically Ill Older Adults and Their Caregivers
… has in turn created an increased demand on informal caregiving. Consequently, adult children often bear the burden of providing care to their aging parents. In view of this demand it is critical that research be conducted to identify the conditions that may threaten the stability of …
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The social construction of gender in informal care: a discourse analytic approach to investigating community care practitioners' talk
The world of informal care has become a fruitful ground for investigation particularly in relation to establishing the contextual variables of the population of carers and the recipients of care. Research has highlighted that significantly more women than men are engaged in the informal delivery of …
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Life Satisfaction: Aging Female Informal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
… describe the relationship between aging female informal caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) and care recipients’ PWD demographic factors, aging female informal caregivers of PWD social support factors, positive and negative feelings, a sense of flourishing, stress, and life …
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Prevalence and associated factors of caregiving burden among caregivers of individuals with severe mental illness: A hospital based study at St John of God Hospitaller services in Mzuzu, Malawi
… suggests that individuals responsible for caregiving may get distressed due to the caregiving experience, a phenomenon researchers call caregiver burden. Following the shift to community-centered mental health services, several studies on caregiving burden have been conducted in high income …
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Identifying the support needs of the informal caregivers of long-term care residents: The potential benefits of a mobile application
Informal caregivers of older adults who reside in long-term care facilities play a crucial role in ensuring the needs of the resident are being met. Such institutional informal caregivers (IICs), however, are at a greater risk of experiencing subjective burden and loneliness. They also tend to …
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Family caregiving and our aging population: caring for the family caregivers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Caregiving, health-related quality of life and healthcare-seeking behaviour: A study of informal caregivers of older adults in Ghana
Research to understand the caregiving and health(care) experiences among informal caregivers of older adults in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. This thesis examines caregiving motivation, caregiver burden, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and healthcare utilization among informal caregivers …