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Residential placement of patients with dementia : relationship to care recipient and caregiver variables

Creator:

Coehlo, Deborah Padgett

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The occurrence and timing of residential care of patients with dementia is impacted by several care recipient and caregiver variables. Previous research has shown a strong relationship among residential placement and marital status, cognitive decline, deterioration in functional abilities, and presence of behavior problems in the care recipient. Research on...

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Dissertation

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that predicting when a patient with dementia will be admitted to residential care continues to be a
Taking a broader approach : longitudinal effects of personality on the physical health of spouse caregivers in two disease groups

Creator:

Hall, Brandi June

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Caregiving circumstances frequently evoke high levels of stress for caregivers and have consistently been linked to adverse psychological and physical health consequences. Within the caregiving literature, researchers have sought to answer questions about why some individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to the well-established deleterious consequences of caregiving stress. Several...

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Masters Thesis

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contextual variables of gender, SES, care-recipient disease status, ADL assistance levels, and number of