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  • Long-distance caregivers and stress

    Creator:
    Kolb, Karen N.
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    Grounded in the life course perspective, this study examined stress among long-distance caregivers, asking whether stress levels vary by family relation to the care recipient or by geographic distance. A growing older adult population forecasts a corresponding need for caregivers. Although family members are the primary source of care for...
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    Masters Thesis
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    reflects the strongest kin obligation, child caregivers may have a higher likelihood of caregiver

  • The association among care given, perceived reciprocity, and frustration with caregiving for daughters

    Creator:
    Alger, Georgina
    Abstract:
    Decreasing mortality rates and increasing life expectancy are contributing factors in a trend currently referred to as the "graying" of America. Some members of this aging population will require caregiving support from their families. Because women tend to outlive men, adult daughters generally assume this important role for their widowed...
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    Masters Thesis
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    health of the care recipient declines, the caregiver often suffers from stress or frustration. Some

  • End-of-life caregiving

    Creator:
    Nelson, Christine A.
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    Over the past decade, changes in health, economic, and social policies have shifted the dying process out of hospitals and into the community. This exploratory,hypothesis-generating study investigated positive and negative caregiving as well as care management resources of community-based end-of-life caregivers and how they related to caregivers' personal growth following...
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    Dissertation
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    Caregiver Adaptation Synthesis ............................................................7 Literature