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Creator:: Kolb, Karen N.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: reflects the strongest kin obligation, child caregivers may have a higher likelihood of caregiver

Creator:: Hall, Brandi June
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: between caregiver personality and contextual variables at Time 1 with perceived physical health at Time

Creator:: McDermott, Elizabeth A.
Abstract:: This thesis presents the steps that were taken to develop thematic findings using data from a qualitative study. Using a grounded approach, the study focused on qualitatively exploring Mexican origin caregivers' conceptualizations of elder caregiving in terms of role functioning, social norms, cultural beliefs, and familial obligations. Data collected from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: analysis reflects the personal identification, held by some women in the sample, as primary caregiver

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: health of the care recipient declines, the caregiver often suffers from stress or frustration. Some

Creator:: Nelson, Christine A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Caregiver Adaptation Synthesis ............................................................7 Literature

Creator:: Lee, Soyoung Choun
Abstract:: A consistent research question in caregiving is why caregivers show individual differences in their abilities to manage stress. This study focuses on the personality traits of spouse caregivers to assess individual differences which enable them to adapt to their particular caregiving situation. Previous research has established concurrent relationships between personality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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